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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
Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.
— Brook Tesla
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
I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.
— George Soros
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.
— Thomas C. Schelling
Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
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
Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history ... Socrates gave advice
— George H. W. Bush
