Agnes Repplier Quotes, Thinking Quotes, History Quotes

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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I am the dream and the hope of the slave

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Language is the archives of history.

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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Life Quotes , History Quotes

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , People Quotes , History Quotes

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

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We are all fools in love.

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Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

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