Top History Quotes
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
Michael Phelps
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
Prince Charles
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain 
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Vladimir Putin
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Howard Nemerov
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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
Katherine Anne Porter
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I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
Jack Abramoff
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
Carol Moseley Braun
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