Historical Quotes

• The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

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  Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Conservative, Repeats

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  The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Hands, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

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• If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Truth, Lying, Liars

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• A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

  Lysander Spooner

  Freedom, Men, Years

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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  It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  Samuel Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Freedom

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• But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

  A. M. Rosenthal

  Strong, Team, Nwo

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• By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations ... a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of human survival. One world government is inevitable.

  Pope John Paul II

  Nwo, Issues, World Government

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• History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Fake People, Reality, History

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 88, 1856.

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• The goal of socialism is communism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Goal, Socialism, Communism

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• I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Crush, Hope

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Violence, Association

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• The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

  Steven Biko

  Mind, Weapons, Human Rights

  "White Racism and Black Consciousness" (paper presented at workshop sponsored by Abe Bailey Institute of Interracial Studies),Cape Town, South Africa, Jan. 1971

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• History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Government, History, Avoided

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• While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Liberty, Bankers, Noble

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• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

  Aldous Huxley

  Learning, Health, Men

  Collected Essays (1959) "Case of Voluntary Ignorance"

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• Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Privilege, Duty

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• History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Theatre, Sun

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• There is nothing more dangerous than security.

  Francis Walsingham

  Danger, Closed Minded, Chasms

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• History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

  Dan Simmons

  Dark, Different, Afar

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.231, Spectra

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Doe, Election, Slave

  One-Dimensional Man ch. 1 (1964)

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• History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Past, Rushing

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• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Memories, Writing History

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• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Writing History, Ink

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  World Government, Would Be, Citizens

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