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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

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time. — Auliq Ice

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members — Carter F. Smith

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

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. — Joe Baca

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

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict. — Susan Jacoby

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington. — Robert E.Lee

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception. — George Lynch

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'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. — Phil Klay

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels

How could a society produce such masters and such monsters? — Meg Wiviott

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

How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me. — Jay Grewal

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

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now. — Thomas Gage

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

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come
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From Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles — Sara Niles

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

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium — Horace

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope! — Anne Frank

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

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

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

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other. — Thomas Carlyle

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

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power. — Livy

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

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. — Abba Eban

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