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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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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. – Margaret Thatcher

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. – Virginia Woolf

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History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures

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Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. – James K. Polk

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