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Friedrich von Schiller

The world’s history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

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History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

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We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.

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Henry Kissinger

The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written.

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The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

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The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

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Winston Churchill

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

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When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.

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More history’s made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

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History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

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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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

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