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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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
M. H. Abrams 
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If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.
Lawrence Summers
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Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
Tom Waits
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As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
Warren Christopher
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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
Lech Walesa
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
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