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" 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

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" All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma. "

" It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states' rights or a way of life or a tradition - and not one human being whipping another, which was a common occurrence. "

" A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. "

Aristide Briand

" We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. "

" India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. "

" There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. "

Benjamin Harrison

" If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world. "

" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "

" This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. "

" The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. "

Edwin Powell Hubble

" When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. "

" The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history. "

" No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. "

Konrad Adenauer

" You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. "

Richard M. Nixon

" The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy. "

" To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. "

" The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" You aren't learning anything when you're talking. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. "

" Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. "

" After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. "

" Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. "

Honore de Balzac

" When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased. "

" We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Of all the threats to free speech in history, the one the media give the most credibility to without question is the feminist movement, which is trying to rebrand public debate as harassment. "

Milo Yiannopoulos

" One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame. "

" I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration. "

Valentina Tereshkova

" They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. "

G. Gordon Liddy