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Quote by Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backwa

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. – Edmund Burke

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The history of the world is the worlds court of justice. – Friedrich Schiller

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The historian amputates reality. – Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist

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History is the devils scripture. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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