Mark Twain Quotes, Law Quotes, History Quotes

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Science Quotes , History Quotes

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , History Quotes

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , History Quotes , May Quotes

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Lying Quotes , History Quotes

Language is the archives of history.

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

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , History Quotes , Historical Quotes

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Should Have Quotes , History Quotes

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Truth Quotes , History Quotes

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Lying Quotes , History Quotes

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , History Quotes

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Two Quotes , History Quotes

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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Kings are the slaves of history.

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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , History Quotes , Romance Quotes

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Life Quotes , History Quotes