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History

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. – Juan Antonio Samaranch

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. – Byron White

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. – Francois Mitterrand

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. – William Manchester

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. – Irving R. Kaufman

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. – David M. Shoup

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. – C. S. Lewis

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. – Mahatma Gandhi

History is written by the victors. – Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. – Winston Churchill

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. – Dalai Lama

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. – Karl Marx

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. – C. S. Lewis

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. – Mahatma Gandhi

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. – Ronald Reagan

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle

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

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. – Friedrich Nietzsche