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History

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! – Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. – Abdul Kalam

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. – Benjamin Disraeli

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. – Albert Schweitzer

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. – Lord Acton

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. – Benjamin Disraeli

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. – James A. Baldwin

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. – James A. Baldwin

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. – Benjamin Disraeli

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. – Carter G. Woodson

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. – Arnold J. Toynbee

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. – George Eliot

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. – Harry S. Truman

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. – Malcolm Forbes