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History

«Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.»
«What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it»
«We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation»
«We live under one sky -- and the sweep of a past painted from the palette of a bruise.»
«We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.»
«What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power»
Author: William Paley | About: History, Power | Keywords: contention, engage
«We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.»
«We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it»
«What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past»
«War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | About: History | Keywords: rattling