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“You have to know the past to understand the present.”
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
“And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to...”
“Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. dont redeem what this particular civili...”
“What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On...”
“Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone ...”
“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whate...”
“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”
“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
“He gave me a small smile, and in that smile I saw our whole catastrophic history playing out before my eyes.”
“How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another”
“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”
“Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no...”
“History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.”
“Theres a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.”
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
“The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark ...”
