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3 December 2020 Rick Warren

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

3 December 2020 David M. Shoup

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

3 December 2020 B. H. Liddell Hart

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

3 December 2020 Norman Cousins

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

3 December 2020 Haile Selassie

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

3 December 2020 Ernest Renan

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

3 December 2020 Neil Armstrong

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

3 December 2020 George Galloway

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

3 December 2020 Alison Sweeney

‘Days’ has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it’s still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I’m proud to be a part of it.

3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

3 December 2020 David Attenborough

In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn’t have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn’t use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There’s so much more to the story.

3 December 2020 Alan Dershowitz

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

3 December 2020 Bhumibol Adulyadej

In Thailand’s history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

3 December 2020 Ilka Chase

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

3 December 2020 Norman Cousins

History is a vast early warning system.

3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

3 December 2020 Boris Becker

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

3 December 2020 Karl Marx

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

3 December 2020 Jim DeMint

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

3 December 2020 Julie Burchill

I’ve never been nostalgic, personally or politically – if the past was so great, how come it’s history?

3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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