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

Ludwig von Mises

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" As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated. "

" I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books. "

" I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques. "

Kelly Wearstler

" World War II was the last government program that really worked. "

" Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. "

B. H. Liddell Hart

" It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. "

" Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three. "

" The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. "

" 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 House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. "

" Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. "

" I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America. "

Shirley Chisholm

" Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. "

" Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. "

" I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore. "

" Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. "

Edward R. Murrow

" Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. "

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

" A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. "

Margaret Thatcher

" Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. "

Ludwig von Mises

" Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "

Michel Houellebecq

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" Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history. "

" The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. "

" Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. "

" To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. "

" There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.' "

" I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is. "

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" Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits. "

Stephen Hawking