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Here you will find all the famous History quotes. There are more than 99+ quotes in our History quotes collection. We have collected all of them and made stunning History wallpapers & posters out of those quotes. You can use this wallpapers & posters on mobile, desktop, print and frame them or share them on the various social media platforms. You can download the quotes images in various different sizes for free. In the below list you can find quotes by some of the famous authors like Winston S. Churchill, Alan Bennett and Michael Crichton

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.

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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

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Do what you will, this world’s a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

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We had to do what we had to do – Britain is great again.

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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today’s laurels are tomorrow’s compost.

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All history was at first oral.

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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.

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History is a bath of blood.

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You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

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

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Happy people have no history.

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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

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There is no history of how bad became better.

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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

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History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It’s been around a long time.

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Don’t confuse the truth with the opinion of the majority.

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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

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History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

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History is an argument without end.

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If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

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History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.

History Quotes / Family Quotes

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

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All our knowledge is symbolic.

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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

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You can’t be neutral on a moving train.

Justice Quotes History Quotes / Moving Quotes

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Forgiveness Quotes History Quotes Virtue Quotes

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Study Quotes History Quotes

Today is the first day in history.-One of Nathan's Daily GemsFrom the 'Book Store ON Main Street'Seal Beach, CA

History Quotes / Bookstores Quotes Living in the moment Quotes Today Quotes Very California: Travels Through the Golden State Quotes

Vigilantes who executed some of the most vicious and ignoble acts of lawless brutality in U.S. history nevertheless considered those very acts to be the work of citizenship and in many cases elicited wide popular approval.

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History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

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If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

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Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

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Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.

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Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

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In fact, the anti-Muslim stance of much of Hindu nationalism can be construed as partly a displaced hostility against the colonial power which could not be expressed directly because of the new legitimacy created within Hinduism for this power. Such a dynamic would seem to roughly duplicate the displacement of Oedipal hostilities in the authoritarian personality.

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History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

History Quotes / Lawrence in Arabia: War Quotes Deceit Quotes Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Quotes T e lawrence Quotes

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

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Almost from the beginning, Lucy Stone had run-ins with the established code of female propriety. Every Sunday morning the students had to sit through a long chapel service. Lucy, who suffered from headaches, took her hat off one morning. She was charged by the Ladies' Board, which supervised the manners and morals of the coeds, with violating the Bible's teach that women must keep their heads covered in church.

History Quotes / Feminism Quotes Patriarchy Quotes The Ladies of Seneca Falls: the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement Quotes

[Giving context to how radical bloomers as an article of clothing were at the time]"The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord they God." - Deutronomy 22:5

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An angry discussion followed, during which belligerent ministers, who had come to the convention in an attempt to disrupt it, read aloud passages from the Bible to disprove Antoinette Brown's contention of equality. They read passages like "Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience," and "Likewise, ye wives, be in subection to your own husbands.

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... on May 1, 1855, Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell were married. Before the minister began the ceremony, Henry read the protest which he and Lucy had prepared: "While acknowledging our mutual affection by publicly assuming the relation of husband and wife, yet in justice to ourselves and a great principle, we deem it a duty to declare this act ... implies no sanction of, nor promise of voluntary obedience to, such of the present laws of marriage as refuse to recognize the wife as an independent, rational being, while they confer upon the husband an injurious and unnatural superiority, investing him with legal powers which no honorable man would exercise, and which no man should possess

History Quotes / Feminism Quotes Patriarchy Quotes The Ladies of Seneca Falls: the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement Quotes

In 1879, Massachusetts allow women to vote in school elections. Lucy Stone went to register, but when she discovered that she would have to sign as Mr.s Blackwell, she refused, and so forfeited her opportunity to vote.Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony were delighted. Mr.s Stanton wrote to Mrs. Stone : "Nothing has been done in the woman's rights movement for some time that so rejoiced my heart as the announcement by you of a woman's right to her name." Susan Anthony wrote that she "rejoiced that you have declared, by actual doing, that a woman has a name, and may retain it throughout her life."Some women in the movement disapproved, however, and wrote to tell her so. She replied that "A thousand times more opposition was made to a woman's claim to speak in public," and continued to use the name of Lucy Stone for the rest of her life. Those who followed her example were called "Lucy Stoners." But in spite of Lucy Stone and the Lucy Stoners, the law has been slow to acknowledge the right of a woman to her own name. More than a hundred years later, in the 1970s, the Supreme Court would uphold an Alabama law which required a woman to use her husband's name.

History Quotes / Feminism Quotes Patriarchy Quotes The Ladies of Seneca Falls: the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement Quotes

Equal rights meant just that, rights for both blacks and women, with the association working for both at the same time. Women should not be told to "stand back and wait." [Frederick] Douglas said that women should be generous and allow the Negro to get his vote first. A young woman in the audience replied that she did not think it generous "to compel women to yield on all questions ... simply because they are women.

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