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History Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart
- ...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that…
- The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of…
- Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that…
- As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
- The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they…
- It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises…
- In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance…
- Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough