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History Quotes

"To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves."

"The history of the world is but the biography of great men"

"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats"

"The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow "

"Looking back, it is not so surprising that humanity has remade itself so completely so quickly considering that it has always been an experimental animal"

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history"

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her"

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago "

"In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger"

"The footfalls of the centuries echo through my being"

"The lessons of the past have shown us that military adventures can lead to human tragedies on a vast scale."

"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable"

"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors the men it remembers"

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them"

"The storyteller's task is to name what is lost"

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