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" The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History

Forward

Stand

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" I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. "

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" Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. "

" A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. "

" Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. "

" 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. "

Dick Gregory

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" Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy. "

Nestor Carbonell

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" A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Stop

Conservative

History

" 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. "

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

" We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wealth

Great

Ambition

" Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. "

" In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Economic

Political

" I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. "

" If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth. "

" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. "

" The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. "

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

" This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. "

" It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present. "

" The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite. "

" More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying. "

Rene Girard

I Am

History

" The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. "

" The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era. "

" People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. "

" Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. "

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Die

Man

" History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. "

" 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. "

" Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great

Change

Space

" 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. "