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Letter "H" » History
«It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.»
«It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.»
«It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants»
Author: Josiah Quincy
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History
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«It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Courage,
History,
Injustice,
Inspiration,
Mankind
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«It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut»
Author: Walter Parker Stacy
| About:
History,
War
| Keywords:
agree, record, throats, tragic, unbelievable
«It was not the outer granduer of the Roman but the inner simplicity of the Christian that lived through the ages.»
«It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.»
Author: Corazon Aquino
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History
| Keywords:
bedroom, bedrooms, consign, consigned, consigns, In the Bedroom
«It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.»
Author: Felix Frankfurter
(Jurist)
| About:
History,
Liberty
| Keywords:
controversies, involving, safeguards, summary
«It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Judgement,
Liberty,
Truth
| Keywords:
conclusions, counsels, faculty, Faculty of, leave office, observations, Office of, represent, thereupon
«It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
preventing, repeating, repetitions, worthwhile
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