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Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
Bernie Sanders
Once in a restaurant I made a toast to my wife, To the best woman a man ever had. The waiter joined me.
Rodney Dangerfield
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
Mattie Stepanek
History is fables agreed upon.
Voltaire
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
Marco Rubio
There's only one thing wrong with my wife's face it shows.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin Disraeli
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
Ambrose Bierce
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
Christopher Hitchens
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
Daisaku Ikeda
History, a distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle
FAT. My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing
My uncles dying wish was to have me sit in his lap he was in the electric chair
My sex life is terrible, my wife put a mirror over the dogs bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.
In history people dressed much better than we do today.
Vivienne Westwood
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson
Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.
Sun Myung Moon
What has been is what it seems will be unless we can break our conditioning by realizing our conditioning. That's the only way we can break free from the cycle of history.
James Dye
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
John Podhoretz
