Quote by David McCullough
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an indi

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. – David McCullough

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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough

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Im so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes. – Zoe Saldana

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Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. – Paul Harris

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That great dust-heap called history. – Augustine Birrell

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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. – John le Carre

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. – John F. Kennedy

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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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