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" Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. "
James K. Polk
Peace
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World
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" As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints. "
Clint Smith
School
Man
Culture
" History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. "
Walter Cronkite
Reading
Past
History
" I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that. "
Casey Neistat
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Know
" History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. "
Anatole France
History
Lies
Books
" If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different. "
Robert Harris
Time
History
Light
" The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed. "
Robert Trout
American
History
Influence
" We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. "
Dick Gregory
History
Think
Great
" For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. "
Nicolaus Copernicus
Through
History
Expert
" Ideas shape the course of history. "
John Maynard Keynes
History
Inspirational
Shape
" More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying. "
Rene Girard
I Am
History
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" The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers. "
James K. Polk
Frame
Government
Whole
" It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. "
Gertrude Stein
" Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true. "
Donald Trump
Believe
Golf
History
" Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history. "
Nobu Matsuhisa
History
Peru
Years
" 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. "
Albert Camus
Me
Everything
Believing
" The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. "
Virginia Woolf
Interesting
Men
Story
" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "
Susan B. Anthony
Vote
Women
Dogs
" Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. "
Walt Whitman
History
Judging
Always
" History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. "
Abba Eban
History
Nations
Us
" The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.' "
Erik Erikson
Making
Also
History
" The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. "
Myles Munroe
History
King
Live
" Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.' "
Malala Yousafzai
Trust
People
Name
" The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. "
Jacques Chirac
Construction
Possible
History
" The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpowering force are recommended to Congress as the most certain and efficient means of bringing the existing collision with Mexico to a speedy and successful termination. "
James K. Polk
Mexico
Appearance
Congress
" In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change. "
Gary Hamel
Organization
You
Long
" History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. "
Lord Acton
Memory
History
Burden
" The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign policy which may ultimately come before them for their consideration, the President secures harmony of action between that body and himself. "
James K. Polk
Power
Body
Action
" It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. "
Benito Mussolini
Hands
People
History
" This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. "
Gertrude Stein
" I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories. "
John Henrik Clarke
History
Memories
Pride