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

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

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

" Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. "

Douglas MacArthur

" I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it. "

" There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. "

" Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. "

Christopher Columbus

" Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. "

Benito Mussolini

" Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. "

Richard M. Nixon

" I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school. "

" Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done. "

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

" All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. "

Friedrich Engels

" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

" Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. "

" History develops, art stands still. "

" Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. "

" To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. "

" History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention. "

" Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. "

" 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

" We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. "

" The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. "

" Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form. "

" History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. "

" It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive. "

Chris Stapleton

" Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. "

Larry Brilliant

" September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. "

" The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. "

" I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. "

Alexander Smith