Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Expression Quotes, Historical Quotes

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

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Language is the archives of history.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , History Quotes , Historical Quotes

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Historical Quotes

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , History Quotes , Historical Quotes

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Book Quotes , Historical Quotes

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , People Quotes , Historical Quotes

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Running Quotes , Historical Quotes

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Past Quotes , Historical Quotes

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Historical Quotes , Facts Quotes

Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.

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Tags : Adolf Ivar Arwidsson Quotes , Historical Quotes , Want Quotes

I will begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately.

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Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.

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A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Night Quotes , Historical Quotes

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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