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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. Feynman on history

History, a distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle on history

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
Hillary Clinton on history

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
Dwight D. Eisenhower on history

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary on history

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle on history

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac on history

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on history

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Abdul Kalam on history

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx on history

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
Tim Pawlenty on history

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
William F. Buckley, Jr. on history

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman on history

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin Disraeli on history

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead on history

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on history

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer on history

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton Friedman on history

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Lord Acton on history

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on history