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More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.
The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.
I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.
The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change