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" Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? "

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Margaret Thatcher

" Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. "

" Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. "

A. J. P. Taylor

" 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. "

" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

" I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves. "

Francis Fukuyama

" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "

" 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. "

" We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America. "

Douglas Brinkley

" You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters. "

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" Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.' "

" Human history in essence is the history of ideas. "

" You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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. "

" History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. "

" Tokyo style is so specific. And I'm a very big fan of their history. It's pretty simple. A lot of the time, people expect to see the wild style that comes out of Japan, but I think, traditionally, the style is very simple. "

" 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. "

" If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. "

" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "

" Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. "

Queen Elizabeth II

" I did not come to NASA to make history. "

" They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. "

G. Gordon Liddy

" It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. "

" There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy. "

David Grinspoon

" You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. "

" I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me. "

" The main thing is to make history, not to write it. "

Otto von Bismarck

" The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. "

" 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. "

" Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. "