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" The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. "

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" Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

" The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. "

Nikita Khrushchev

" You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. "

Stephen Ambrose

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

Alice Temperley

" It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. "

Thomas Friedman

" I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy. "

" The American free enterprise system is the greatest tool to lift people out of poverty ever created in human history and when applied properly, does not discriminate by race, religion, or skin color. "

Markwayne Mullin

" 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

" When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans. "

" The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. "

" We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. "

Franklin Pierce Adams

" 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. "

" 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

" My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. "

" By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. "

Christoph Waltz

" Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. "

Arnold J. Toynbee

" 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. "

" History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. "

James Howard Kunstler

" Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. "

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

" Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. "

William O. Douglas

" We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. "

John F. Kennedy

" I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well. "

" The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. "

" History is about loops and continuums. "

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

Konrad Adenauer

" Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. "

" 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 written by the victors. "

Winston Churchill