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by Vesper on January 17th, 2007

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What are some good quotes about history? (history in general or American history)

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  • by mediaskate648 on January 18th, 2007

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    Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

    - Will Rogers

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  • by anon on August 4th, 2008

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    "The guns replace the plow, facades are tarnished now
    The principles have been betrayed
    The dreams's gone stale, but still, let hope prevail
    History's debt won't be repaid"

    --neil peart, rush, "beneath, between and behind" (the song is about america's history, written from a canadian's point of view)

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  • by 68 Charger on August 4th, 2008

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    He who chooses security over liberty will surely lose both. Dr Ben Frinklin

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  • by maddock on January 18th, 2007

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    "The men American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try and tell them the truth."

    - H. L. Mencken

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  • by maddock on January 18th, 2007

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    “I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly...the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America...He is besides, tho’ a little vain and silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.”

    - Benjamin Franklin, 1784

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  • by Zebulon on January 7th, 2008

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    History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. ~Walter Rauschenbusch

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  • by technios on August 4th, 2008

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    "history just happened" not a quote yet but i would be honored if you were the first... i would feel foolish to find out i was not original though... is this a quote already???

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  • by Vesper on January 18th, 2007

    Vesper

    I liked this one:

    " History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. "


    -Marcus Tullius Cicero

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