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" History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. "

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" I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it. "

" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "

" Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. "

Robert H. Schuller

" I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. "

Richard M. Nixon

" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "

Mitch McConnell

" The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. "

" The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. "

Irving R. Kaufman

" Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. "

Carter G. Woodson

" I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. "

Barbara Tuchman

" Throughout our history, Canada's immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were - and are - nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes and promoted by successive governments over generations. "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

" For me, writing a historical novel was really hard. I love history as a subject and majored in it in college. I think, in a way, my training made it worse for me because I knew how important it was to focus on document-based analysis, and I really didn't want to get stuff wrong. "

" Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. "

" In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. "

" Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. "

C. Wright Mills

" What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? "

Orson F. Whitney

" We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. "

John F. Kennedy

" Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. "

" If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "

" No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. "

" History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' "

Eduardo Galeano

" I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. "

Queen Elizabeth II

" The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable. "

" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

David Attenborough

" If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums. "