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History Quotes

"I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time"

"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times"

"I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? "

"Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past"

"Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain"

"We are always pursued by our origins. "

"The most important thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history "

"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable"

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

"I have never physically taken part in a revolution"

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid"

"One is allowed to change the past, but only in the libraries."

"A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it."

"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back"

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