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This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.
— Charles Kennedy
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
— Henry Ford
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
— Anatole Broyard
If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.
— Electronic Arts
Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
— Michael Morpurgo
All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.
— Karen Chamberlain
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
— Honore De Balzac
I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.
— Ralph Webster
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.
— M.F. Moonzajer
He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
— Dave Malloy
They would never forget the war. The world wouldn't let them, and neither would history.
— Lee Strauss
Jesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up.
— Carolyn Custis James
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
— Douglas MacArthur
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.
— Robert E.Lee
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
— James Hilton
Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.
— Frederic Raphael
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.
— Philip Sheridan
The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.
— Kathryn Harrison
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
— Winston Churchill
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
— Richard M. Nixon
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
— Daniel Silva
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
— Carl Sagan
Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.
— Al Gore
The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.
— Philippa Gregory
The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.
— Michael Ondaatje
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
— George W. Bush
History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.
— Oliver North
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
— Charles Krauthammer
By such accident of the human mind, war, trade, and history are shaped. The
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
— Henry Kissinger
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
— Adlai Stevenson I
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
— Henry Adams
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.
— Mildred Cable
If a bomb has your name on it, you are dead whatever you do; and if not, it will miss you.
— James Lingard
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
— Thucydides
They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.
— Bob Massie
War without end. Well, what was history without that?
And how would having the stars change anything? — James S.A. Corey
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
— William Cowper
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
— Kevin J. Anderson
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
— James Buchanan
The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.
— Aslan Maskhadov
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
— Jared Diamond
Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.
— Shannon L. Alder
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
— Will Durant
But whom could I resent?...the wheel of history turned by those war- and peacemakers whom I did not know?
— Uyen Nicole Duong
Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.
— Robert Ferrigno
In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others.
— Thomas Harding
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
— Wendell Berry
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.
— Bruce Catton
Those are the bad guys, right?""Depends on who wins, I guess. — Shannon A. Thompson
I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners.
— Edmund Ironside
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions ... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
— Frederick Douglass
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
— John Bartholomew Gough
She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.
— Nancy B. Brewer
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.
— Pentti Linkola
Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.
— Frank-Walter Steinmeier
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
— Lane Evans
History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.
— Douglas Brinkley
We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.
— Erich Maria Remarque
Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust.
— A.E. Samaan
History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.
— Bobby Adair