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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“History is written by the victors.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death”
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“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
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“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
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“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”
David C. McCullough Quotes |
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“Happy is the nation without a history.”
Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria Quotes Source: Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (introduction), (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment)
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“History is a pageant, not a philosophy.”
Augustine Birrell Quotes Source: Obiter Dicta--The Muse of History
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“I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.”
Henry St. John Bolingbroke Quotes Source: On the Study and Use of History (letter 2)
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“The dignity of history.”
Henry St. John Bolingbroke Quotes Source: On the Study and Use of History (letter V)
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“What want these outlaws conquerors should have
But History's purchased page to call them great?”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 48)
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“And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 108)
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“All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than
once.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: quoted in Froude's "Early Life of Carlyle"
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“Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Cromwell's Letter and Speeches--Introduction (ch. I)
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“History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--On History
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“History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first
distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest
expression of what can be called Thought.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--On History
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“In a certain sense all men are historians.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--On History
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“History, a distillation of rumor.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: French Revolution (pt. I, bk. VII, ch. V)
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“All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Latter Day Pamphlets (405)
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“Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Life of Frederick the Great (bk. XVI, ch. I)
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“What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]”
Madame Marie Anne du Deffand Quotes Source: said of Voltaire, who was accused by critics of lack of invention
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