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"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."	Robert Anson Heinlein
"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life."	Norman Cousins
"A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read."	Will Rogers
"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable."	Thomas Jefferson
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten."	Euripides
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past."	Eric Hoffer
"A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."	Anna Mary Robertson Moses
"All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any."	Carl Lotus Becker
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."	Georges Clemenceau
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years."	William Golding
"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."	Bill Cosby
"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past." (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)"	Gerald R. Ford
"As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in."	Edward Bedore
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."	Count Maurice Maeterlink
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."	A. Whitney Griswold
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."	Hubert H. Humphrey
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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