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" One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. "

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" The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent. "

Tammy Duckworth

" The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history. "

" Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. "

" I don't think you can erase history. "

Johnny Van Zant

" Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. "

" All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight. "

" History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. "

" Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. "

" Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" 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. "

" For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. "

Winston Churchill

" I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. "

" Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. "

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

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

" My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history. "

Alice Temperley

" Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. "

" We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. "

" Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it. "

" The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society. "

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

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" 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

" History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. "

David Weinberger

" Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart. "

" My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. "

John Henrik Clarke

" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "

George Santayana

" 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

" History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them. "