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" History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality. "

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" One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. "

Albert Schweitzer

" We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. "

" History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. "

" The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. "

" Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. "

Winston Churchill

" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. "

Abraham Lincoln

" History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. "

Ferdinand Marcos

" The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. "

" Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books. "

" I'm not a believer in bringing back the draft. But I am a huge proponent of national service. "

" I have and will continue to oppose any legislation that would undermine the important consumer protections provided under Dodd-Frank. "

" History is more or less bunk. "

" History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. "

" How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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

" Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. "

" I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches. "

" If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. "

" You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" As a member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus and a strong defender of a woman's right to choose, my bottom line here is this: women have a constitutional right to access abortion. "

" On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. "

Alfred de Vigny

" If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku. "

" Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest. "

" We can protect the Second Amendment, we can protect our constitutional rights, and we can still do something about this public health crisis that is gun violence in our communities. "

" During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump pledged to eliminate our national debt 'over a period of eight years.' Now two years into his administration, our national debt has increased, surpassing $21 trillion for the first time in American history. "

" Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly. "

" It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "

Susan B. Anthony

" The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. "

Bertrand Russell

" I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. "

Martin Scorsese