History Quotes

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Famous Quotes & Quotations About History:

You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.
~ Charles Johnson.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
~ Felix Frankfurter.

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
~ David Ormsby Gore.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~ Woodrow Wilson.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of "progress," but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
~ Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death.

Surely, in the history of lies told to the population, this is the biggest lie. In the history of secrets, withheld from the American people, this is the biggest secret: that there are classes with different interests in this country. To ignore that - not to know that the history of our country is a history of slaveowner against slave, landlord against tenant, corporation against worker, rich against poor - is to render us helpless before all the lesser lies told to us by people in power.
~ Howard Zinn.

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