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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert A. Heinlein
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus
What we do in life, echoes in eternity.
Maximus
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.
William Butler Yeats
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler
The history of mankind is his character.
Johann von Goethe
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Norman Mailer
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Robert Anton Wilson
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
Vivienne Westwood
