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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Everything solid was first an idea.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
Besides getting shot in the back of the head, do you know what else Abraham Lincoln did?
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
History is not was, it is.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echos, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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