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3 December 2020 Neil Armstrong

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

3 December 2020 Ibrahim Babangida

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

3 December 2020 George Eliot

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

3 December 2020 Henry Ford

We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.

3 December 2020 Jacques Chirac

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.

3 December 2020 Ken Kesey

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

3 December 2020 Julius Caesar

I came, I saw, I conquered.

3 December 2020 Sandra Day O'Connor

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

3 December 2020 Sidney Poitier

So I’m OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

3 December 2020 Alton Brown

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it’s based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn

I know there’s some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

3 December 2020 Mao Zedong

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

3 December 2020 John Podhoretz

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called ‘progressives’ should be thanking him for it – even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

3 December 2020 Colin Powell

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

3 December 2020 Edward R. Murrow

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

3 December 2020 Charles Bukowski

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

3 December 2020 Jason Aldean

Macon has such a rich musical history – and the state of Georgia, as well.

3 December 2020 Walter Bagehot

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

3 December 2020 Elie Wiesel

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

3 December 2020 Mao Zedong

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

3 December 2020 Joe Barton

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation’s founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America’s storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt

World history is tragic.

3 December 2020 V. S. Naipaul

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

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