History quotes
18 quotes. Authors include Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill.
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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
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“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
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“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
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“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
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“History is written by the victors.”
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“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.”
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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
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“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
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“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
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“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
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“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
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“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
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“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”