H. G. Wells Quotes, Historical Quotes, Facts Quotes

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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I will begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately.

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There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

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Our aim is a democratic peace.

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Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

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No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

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Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.

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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

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History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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