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History Quotes by Lord Acton
- History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
- If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
- And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History…
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of…
- Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor…
- The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit…
- Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
- Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.
- History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.
- History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
- To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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
- 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