Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Party Quotes, History Quotes

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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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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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

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Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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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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Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

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I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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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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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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

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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

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