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" The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. "

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" Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. "

" I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. "

Charles de Gaulle

" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "

" Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy. "

" Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. "

" We are not makers of history. We are made by history. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" I did not come to NASA to make history. "

" I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. "

" 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. "

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

" Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. "

A. J. P. Taylor

" 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

" 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. "

" History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. "

" In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from. "

" No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day. "

Richard Jefferies

" History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. "

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

C. Wright Mills

" 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

" Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. "

" Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. "

" Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. "

Douglas MacArthur

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

Konrad Adenauer

" We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. "

Charles Bukowski

" 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 is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

" The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. "

Ludwig von Mises

" Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.' "

" To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. "