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I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real…
The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.
[I]t's not the advertising, it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it,…
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This…
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives…
Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a…
Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a…
History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident…
Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession…
If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other…

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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. — Edmund Burke
To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change… — George S. Patton
I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you… — Howard Zinn
If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read… — Alex Haley
If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday. — Howard Zinn
I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took… — Louie Gohmert
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history. — Khalil Gibran
When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are… — Howard Zinn
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures;… — Maxine Hong Kingston
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't… — Will Rogers
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history. — Charles Krauthammer
To be a successful soldier, you must know history. — George S. Patton

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