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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the pa

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. – John Acton

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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. – John Acton

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Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. – Anatole France

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The Marine Corps is the Navys police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalins. – Harry S. Truman

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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination of the living. – William Carlos Williams

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