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" Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. "

Arthur Henderson

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" A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. "

" In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect. "

Tommy Lee Jones

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

Charles Bukowski

" If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. "

Carter G. Woodson

" History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' "

Eduardo Galeano

" In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard. "

Susanna Kearsley

" There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. "

" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "

George Santayana

" History is a relay of revolutions. "

" A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. "

" The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. "

" It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place. "

" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "

" Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. "

Doris Kearns Goodwin

" One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. "

" The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. "

Mary McLeod Bethune

" A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. "

" If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. "

" Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. "

" It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. "

" Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. "

" It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. "

Benito Mussolini

" World history is a court of judgment. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

" I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. "

" I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out. "

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

" So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" History is written by the victors. "

Winston Churchill

" When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community. "

" 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. "