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Quotations by Subject: History (17 quotes)

Results from Classic Quotes:

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.: Gunnar Myrdal
There is properly no history, only biography.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.: Eugene V. Debs
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.: Hans A. Bethe
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.: Napoleon
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), South Africa, 1966

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