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Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations. — Arthur Koestler

Norman Rockwell saved my life. — Jane Allen Petrick

So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city. — Junius Williams

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own. — Marjorie Garber

Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one. — Brook Tesla

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. — Leon Trotsky

Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight — Niccolo Machiavelli

History without politics descends to mere Literature. — John Robert Seeley

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little. — Kenneth Minogue

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power. — Will Durant

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush. — George Soros

Individuals capture attention and engross history, but the most revolutionary changes in Roman politics were the work of families or of a few men. — Ronald Syme

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that. — Wallace Shawn

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. — Chris Marker

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred, — Samantha Power

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you. — Benjamin Disraeli

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. — G. M. Trevelyan

Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never absolve you! — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Be it in the rough-and-tumble world of inner-city politics or the bare-knuckle boxing ring, the Irish rightly earned their fightin' moniker. — Rashers Tierney

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth. — Miguel Syjuco

Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously. — Susan Sontag

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. — Christopher Hitchens

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground. — Winston S. Churchill

Everyone has an interpretation of history, which suits their interest and benefit — Kandathil Sebastian

Ignoring the evils of our history will only cause them to reoccur. — R.M. Donaldson

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. — Pearl S. Buck

All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another. — Selma Dabbagh

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. — Craig M. Mullaney

History is not coherent; moreover, the politics of coherence tend to drive history in the least tolerable directions. — Joshua Clover

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes. — Rick Perlstein

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it — Aneurin Bevan

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. — William Kennedy

History is more interesting than politics. — Lennart Meri

The colored hobo and now Junior Rabbit had told us, 'Be ready to compete but be ready to fight too or you may not get a chance to compete'. — Clarence Hunter

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country. — Ross Perot

Just as all politics is local, all good history is personal. — Marcia Clark

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris. — Madeleine M. Kunin

The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar - another means to control. — Chris Galford

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive. — Antonia Fraser

We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans. — Thomas Jefferson

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group. — Junius Williams

With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face. — Nadeem Farooq Paracha

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history. — Doris Lessing

Politics is history in the present tense. — John Avlon

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. — Leon Trotsky

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

A remarkable and definite victory.
The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers
and warmed and cheered all our hearts. — Winston S. Churchill

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds. — Samuel Moyn

Saudis of all sorts recent having to beg princes for favors to secure services that should be a public right — Karen Elliott House

Once again, human history proved that the worst mistake possible in politics was underestimating one's opponents. Van — Greg Bear

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. — Tomichan Matheikal

I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration. — Michael Bronski

Is truth an absolute? — Austin Hernon

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. — James A. Garfield President Of The United States

Remaking the world wasn't always a stage show and a cheering crowd. Politics was just warfare by other means. The losers didn't get to hold rallies. — Alex London

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run. — Malcolm Lowry

History is past politics, and politics is present history. — Edward Augustus Freeman

What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable. — Rebecca Solnit

The New Deal began on March 25th, 1911. The day that the Triangle factory burned. — Frances Perkins

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion. — Eva Herzigova

How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills? — Rick Perry

I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. — Michael Collins

Geography should be the ultimate deciding factor for every political dilemma for proximity to an ailing land is bound to result in one's infection. — Aysha Taryam

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause. — Romain Rolland

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all. — Ben Bradlee

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years. — John Stossel

Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time. — Junius Williams

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it. — Luke Montgomery

The first duty of a man is to think for himself — Jose Marti

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. — Richard Stallman

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"?? — A.E. Samaan

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism. — K. Lee Lerner

History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind. — Peter Adejimi

Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history. — Arnold Kling

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history. — Eliot Spitzer

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement. — Gregory Maguire

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. — Richard Reeves

I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me. — John Wilkes Booth

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian. — A.E. Samaan

Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence. — Thomas C. Schelling

Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually. — Vineet Raj Kapoor

The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history. — Will Durant

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution! — Albert Einstein

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history. — Hank Williams Jr.

I had never run a campaign, but I was an organizer. My job was to create momentum by mobilizing the constituency we had, which I was positioned to do. — Junius Williams

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University. — Julia Bacha

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say. — C.L. Gammon

History will tell the story, America will always stand. — Randy Travis

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker — Malcolm X

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history ... Socrates gave advice — George H. W. Bush

There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions. — Donald Trump