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History Quotes

"Only the dead have seen the end of war "

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

"We owe our civilization to the curiosity of our ancestors, who never stopped questioning."

"The greatest genuine reformers of the past, if brought back to this world today, would tremble lest their labors have irretrievably deserved confusion. "

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries"

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake"

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground"

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

"History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient."

"There's never a new fashion but it's old"

"History will judge societies and governments and their institutions not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and powerful but how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless"

"The future belongs to those who can reinterpret our past"

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

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