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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• We need a common enemy to unite us.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Enemy, Needs, Common

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

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Conservative, Repeats

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The goal of socialism is communism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Goal, Socialism, Communism

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

  Konrad Adenauer

  Government, History, Avoided

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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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• 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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• There is nothing more dangerous than security.

  Francis Walsingham

  Danger, Closed Minded, Chasms

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• But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.

  Athenagoras of Athens

  Christian, Character, Body

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• Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

  Andrew Jackson

  Spring, Benefits, Paper

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.437

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• God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

  Samuel Butler

  Education, Past, History

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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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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• In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Power, Reality, Men

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.518, Harvard University Press

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• The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

  Ron Paul

  Rights, Rejection, Important

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Groups, United States

  Statement to the nation, 4 Mar. 1917

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• History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, History, Bad Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.82

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