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1. "Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Freedom and Servitude

2. "Every time history repeats itself the price goes up."

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3. "In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."

Stefan Zweig, "Stellar Moments in Human History"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

4. "American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe."

Harold Rosenberg, "The Tradition of the New"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

5. "Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state - everything is a pretext for a good dinner."

Jean Anouilh, "Cécile"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

6. "Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."

James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name"

Quotations about: Various

7. "Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer."

Stanley Rudin

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

8. "Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart."

Yasir Arafat

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

9. "History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the the movements of the world gave a chance for it."

Walter Bagehot, "Physics and Politics"

10. "The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."

Walter Bagehot, "Physics and Politics"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

11. "Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, "Beyond the Mexique Bay"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

12. "Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

13. "America is a young country with an old mentality."

George Santayana, "Winds of Doctrine"

14. "When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London."

Bette Midler

15. "France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.""

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Marriage

16. "History is the short trudge from Adam to atom."

Leonard Louis Levinson

17. "America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."

Laurence J. Peter

18. "Some people make headlines while others make history."

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

19. "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

Gore Vidal

Quotations about: Patriotism

20. "A mere fact will never stop an Englishman."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Various

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21. "History is statistics in a state of progression; statistics is history at a stand."

Ludwig Schlozer

Quotations about: Science and Technology

22. "An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."

Mark Twain

23. "It is the great north wind that made the Vikings."

Scandanavian proverb

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

24. "Three Spaniards, four opinions."

Spanish proverb

25. "Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation."

Kim Stanley Robinson, "Red Mars"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

26. "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to decadence without the usual interval of civilization."

Georges Clemenceau

27. "Ideas shape the course of history."

John Maynard Keynes

28. "The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Thomas Carlyle

29. "History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."

E. L. Doctorow

30. "History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."

James A. Garfield

31. "From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."

Napoleon Bonaparte

32. "Cricket is a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of Eternity."

Stormont Mancroft, "A Chinaman in My Bath"

33. "The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves."

James A. Garfield

34. "Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security."

Alexander Haig

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

35. "United States: .... A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies."

John Ralston Saul, "The Doubter's Companion"

36. "Justice is the bread of the nation, it is always hungry for it."

François-René de Chateaubriand

Quotations about: Justice

37. "America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote."

Bill Vaughan

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

38. "Canada is a country built against any common, geographic, historic or cultural sense."

Pierre Trudeau

39. "The happiest times of humanity are the blank pages in the book of history."

Leopold von Ranke

Quotations about: Happiness

40. "In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."

Yakov Smirnoff

Quotations about: Authority, Government

41. "History ought never to be confused with nostalgia; it's written not to revere the dead, but to inspire the living. It's our cultural bloodstream, the secret of who we are. And it tells us to let go of the past, even as we honor it; to lament what ought to be lamented, to celebrate what should be celebrated."

Simon Schama

42. "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America."

Jimmy Carter

Quotations about: Justice

43. "World history is the world's court."

Friedrich von Schiller, "Resignation"

44. "In America nothing dies easier than tradition."

Russell Baker

45. "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."

Ambrose Bierce

Quotations about: Peace and War

46. "The French courage proceeds from vanity - the German from phlegm - the Turkish from fanaticism and opium - the Spanish from pride - the English from coolness - the Dutch from obstinacy - the Russian from insensibility - but the Italian from anger."

George Gordon Byron

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

47. "History is a selective interpretation of events designed to justify those currently in power. Memory is the same thing on an individual scale."

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Quotations about: Memory

48. "One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour."

Marshall McLuhan

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

49. "The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman."

Willa Cather, "O Pioneers!"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

50. "The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians."

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge), "End of an Age"

Quotations about: Various

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