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" The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. "

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

" The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. "

" Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees. "

Raja Krishnamoorthi

" 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. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. "

Peter L. Berger

" History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. "

" I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it. "

" India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. "

" A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. "

Grover Cleveland

" I don't think you can erase history. "

Johnny Van Zant

" The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. "

Stephen Hawking

" An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. "

William Manchester

" History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. "

Lawrence Durrell

" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "

Condoleezza Rice

" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "

" There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. "

" I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. "

" 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. "

" My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made. "

" Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. "

" A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine. "

" If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. "

Ludwig von Mises

" 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. "

" Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books. "

" I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil. "

" I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. "

" I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history. "

" In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "

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

" The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. "