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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends portraits hang and look thereon Ireland history in their lineaments trace think where man glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

The world battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

I am the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you do not believe it, check the cash register.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Whether a woman running for office or she is supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there is just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

I do not believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.