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History Quotes by Edward Gibbon
- I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride…
- Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
- The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
- If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most…
- History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
- The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history
- History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally…
- The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is…
- The history of empires is the history of human misery.
- The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.
- History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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