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History Quotes by Harry S. Truman
- We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations,…
- There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
- I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of…
- The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
- All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall
- Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present…
- I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly…
- Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we…
- The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been…
- A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
- Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders…
- The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda…
- Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth…
- Men make history, not the other way around.
- The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
- I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.
- To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.
- The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know
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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
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- 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
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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
- 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