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A. Whitney Brown	The past actually happened but history is only w...
Abraham Lincoln	The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to t...
Abraham Lincoln	We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds...
Adm C. Turner Joy	The field of combat was a long, narrow, green-ba...
Adm James Stockdale	They can shout down the head of the physics depa...
Adm Stansfield Turner	We talked for a few more minutes and then the pr...
Adm William Halsey	There are no extraordinary men... just extraordi...
Alexis de Tocqueville	History is a gallery of pictures in which there ...
Alfred Korzybski	The map is not the territory....
Ambrose Bierce	History is an account, mostly false, of events, ...
Anwar Sadat	Russians can give you arms but only the United S...
Arnold J. Toynbee	Civilization is a movement and not a condition, ...
Arnold J. Toynbee	History is a vision of God's creation on the mov...
Augustine Birrell	History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and ...
Barbara Tuchman	The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Se...
Barry M. Goldwater	Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to ...
Benjamin Disraeli	Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a...
Bishop Desmond Tutu	If you are neutral in situations of injustice, y...
Brig Gen Elizabeth P. Hoisington	If I had learned to type, I never would have mad...
Byron R. White	The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, n...
Calvin Coolidge	I have noticed that nothing I never said ever di...
Charles De Gaulle	How can you be expected to govern a country that...
Charles De Gaulle	I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But ...
Charles De Gaulle	My dear and old country, here we are once again ...
Christopher Columbus	Following the light of the sun, we left the Old ...
Colin Powell	90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of ...
Colin Powell	The chief condition on which, life, health and v...
Dan Quayle	It's a very good historical book about history....
Dan Quayle	People that are really very weird can get into s...
Dante Alighieri	Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for...
Dick Gregory	We used to root for the Indians against the cava...
Dionysius	History is philosophy teaching by example....
Douglas MacArthur	Could I have but a line a century hence creditin...
Douglas MacArthur	In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the...
Douglas MacArthur	They died hard, those savage men - like wounded ...
Douglas MacArthur	Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows n...
Dwight D. Eisenhower	The most terrible job in warfare is to be a seco...
Earl of Chesterfield	A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine...
Edward Gibbon	History is indeed little more than the register ...
Edward M. Kennedy	Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accide...
Edward R. Murrow	Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts....
Edward R. Murrow	We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it ...
Elizabeth II	I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you...
Evita Peron	I have one thing that counts, and that is my hea...
Evita Peron	Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nons...
Evita Peron	There are some oligarchs that make me want to bi...
Evita Peron	Time is my greatest enemy....
Evita Peron	When the rich think about the poor, they have po...
Fidel Castro	I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do i...
Francois Mitterrand	France is delighted at this new opportunity to s...
Frank Herbert	Seek freedom and become captive of your desires....
Franklin D. Roosevelt	The test of our progress is not whether we add m...
G. Gordon Liddy	They were afraid, never having learned what I ta...
Gen Bela Kiraly	Even pirates, before they attack another ship, h...
Gen David M. Shoup	Remember, God provides the best camouflage sever...
George F. Will	The future has a way of arriving unannounced....
George F. Will	Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is ...
George F. Will	World War II was the last government program tha...
George M. Humphrey	You can't set a hen in one morning and have chic...
George S. Patton	A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood....
George S. Patton	Americans love to fight. All real Americans love...
George Santayana	History is a pack of lies about events that neve...
George Santayana	Those who do not remember the past are condemned...
George W. Bush	The deliberate and deadly attacks which were car...
George Washington Carver	When you do the common things in life in an unco...
Gerald R. Ford	The three-martini lunch is the epitome of Americ...
Gertrude Stein	It is the soothing thing about history that it d...
Grover Cleveland	A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignit...
H. G. Wells	Human history becomes more and more a race betwe...
H. L. Mencken	Historian: an unsuccessful novelist....
H. L. Mencken	Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of a...
Haile Selassie	Throughout history, it has been the inaction of ...
Harry S. Truman	The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and ...
Henry A. Kissinger	It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his...
Henry B. Adams	Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit...
Henry Ford	History is more or less bunk....
Henry James	It takes an endless amount of history to make ev...
Herbert Hoover	Honor is not the exclusive property of any polit...
Herbert Hoover	I'm the only person of distinction who has ever ...
Herbert Hoover	No greater nor more affectionate honor can be co...
Horace Sutton	Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendere...
Hugo L. Black	In my view, far from deserving condemnation for ...
Irving R. Kaufman	The judicial system is the most expensive machin...
Irving R. Kaufman	The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of p...
Irving R. Kaufman	To the extent that the judicial profession becom...
Irving R. Kaufman	What most impresses us about great jurists is no...
Jacqueline Kennedy	What is sad for women of my generation is that t...
Jacques Chirac	Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were ...
Jacques Chirac	The construction of Europe is an art. It is the ...
James A. Baldwin	People are trapped in history and history is tra...
James Knox Polk	Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of ...
James Knox Polk	Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout ...
Jessamyn West	The past is really almost as much a work of the ...
John F. Kennedy	History is a relentless master. It has no presen...
John F. Kennedy	If we cannot now end our differences, at least w...
John F. Kennedy	Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Dem...
John F. Kennedy	We would like to live as we once lived, but hist...
John F. Kennedy	When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is co...
John Foster Dulles	I wouldn't attach too much importance to these s...
John Quincy Adams	Posterity: you will never know how much it has c...
John Quincy Adams	To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at...
John W. Gardner	History never looks like history when you are li...
Joseph Stalin	If any foreign minister begins to defend to the ...
Juan Antonio Samaranch	We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people tog...
Julius Caesar	I came, I saw, I conquered....
Kofi Annan	Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pu...
Konrad Adenauer	History is the sum total of things that could ha...
Lance Morrow	The real 1960s began on the afternoon of Novembe...
Louis D. Brandeis	Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppr...
Louis D. Brandeis	Most of the things worth doing in the world had ...
Lyndon B. Johnson	Being president is like being a jackass in a hai...
Lyndon B. Johnson	If one morning I walked on top of the water acro...
Lyndon B. Johnson	The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me....
Mao Tse-Tung	Despise the enemy strategically, but take him se...
Margaret Thatcher	A world without nuclear weapons would be less st...
Margaret Thatcher	Democratic nations must try to find ways to star...
Margaret Thatcher	It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and...
Margaret Thatcher	To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very g...
Marge Piercy	Never doubt that you can change history. You alr...
Mark Twain	The very ink with which history is written is me...
Napoleon Bonaparte	Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever....
Napoleon Bonaparte	History is the version of past events that peopl...
Napoleon Bonaparte	What is history but a fable agreed upon?...
Neil Armstrong	That's one small step for man, one giant leap fo...
Nikita S. Khrushchev	The more bombers, the less room for doves of pea...
Norman Cousins	History is a vast early warning system....
Oliver North	I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in t...
Percy Bysshe Shelley	History is a cyclic poem written by time upon th...
Peter Berger	The past is malleable and flexible, changing as ...
Prince Charles	Something as curious as the monarchy won't survi...
Richard E. Lingenfelter	For it is a land of illusion, a place in the min...
Richard M. Nixon	Because of what you have done the heavens have b...
Richard M. Nixon	I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not...
Richard M. Nixon	In the long term we can hope that religion will ...
Richard M. Nixon	It is necessary for me to establish a winner ima...
Richard M. Nixon	There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli...
Richard M. Nixon	You must pursue this investigation of Watergate ...
Ronald Reagan	The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon design...
Samuel Butler	God cannot alter the past, though historians can...
Sandra Day O'Connor	Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were ...
Susan B. Anthony	Failure is impossible....
Tacitus	Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not ...
Ted Koppel	History is a tool used by politicians to justify...
Theodore H. White	I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 ...
Thomas Jefferson	I like the dreams of the future better than the ...
Tony Blair	We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to...
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin	It is impossible to predict the time and progres...
Wendell Berry	I come into the peace of wild things who do not ...
William Butler Yeats	Why should we honour those that die upon the fie...
William James	The world we see that seems so insane is the res...
William Manchester	Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacA...
William Manchester	An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to ...
William Manchester	It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and...
William O. Douglas	One who comes to the Court must come to adore, n...
William O. Douglas	Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out...
Winston Churchill	History will be kind to me for I intend to write...
Woodrow Wilson	The man who is swimming against the stream knows...