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" Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. "

Ibrahim Babangida

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" Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc. "

Friedrich Engels

" Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. "

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Abraham Lincoln

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

Margaret Thatcher

" When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. "

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Winston Churchill

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" The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. "

Arthur Koestler

" How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" If you think you have it tough, read history books. "

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" If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity. "

Cesare Beccaria

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David Ebershoff

" Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. "

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" A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. "

Ibrahim Babangida

" The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. "

Ludwig von Mises

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Michael Beschloss

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Francis Cabot Lowell

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