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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling Stop! – William F. Buckley, Jr.

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One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. – John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones

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History is the propaganda of the victors. – Ernst Toller

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