Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Love was something he had banished from his life years ago out of necessity, but she made him yearn to be loved.” — Stacy Reid Copy Share Image
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too. — Mike Love Copy Share Image
I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. — Charles XII of Sweden Copy Share Image
Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research…if we are to continue to leave… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds -… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Dying a thousand deaths in my head to protect you is better than losing you one time in the flesh." ~ Gustaf… — Renee Vincent Copy Share Image
The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes. — Cynthia Addai-Robinson Copy Share Image
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Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
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