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There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.
I'm an athlete. I'm not a big golf nerd in that aspect. I'm not big on the history.
If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.
I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.
My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.
We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.
I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.
We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.
The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.
History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.