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- People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 09/88
- Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?
- Howard Zinn
- No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.
- Richard Nixon
- Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years.
- Liz Trotta on John Chancellor
- Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.
- Unknown
- History is bunk.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
- H. Allen Smith
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