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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you.: Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.: James A. Forude
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.: Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874)
His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Hobbit
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993

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