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"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn." Edmund Burke 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"God cannot alter the past, but historians can." Samuel Butler 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." Herbert Butterfield Rate this Quote
"History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God." Albert Camus 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers." Albert Camus 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past." George 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men." Thomas Carlyle 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The history of the world is but the biography of great men." Thomas Carlyle 3.9333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!" Thomas Carlyle Rate this Quote
"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die." Thomas Carlyle 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years." James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman." Willa Sibert Cather 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued." Miguel de Cervantes Rate this Quote
"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make." Gilbert Keith Chesterton 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past." Madame Chiang 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past." May-lin Soong Chiang 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world." Frederick Chiluba 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby." I Ching 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past." Noam Chomsky 4.3750 average rating Rate this Quote
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill 4.7308 average rating Rate this Quote
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