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An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
~ Gerald R. Ford
News is only the first rough draft of history.
~ Alan Barth
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
~ J. William Fulbright
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
~ James Gates Percival
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
~ Klemens von Metternich
History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.
~ Runoko Rashidi
The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.
~ Vishal Mangalwadi
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
~ John Hersey
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
~ Rita Dove
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
~ W. H. Auden
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
~ Louise Brooks
to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.
~ Riane Eisler
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
~ Carter G. Woodson
That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.
~ John Adams
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
~ Lynn Abbey
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
~ Alistair Cooke
I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.
~ Ken Ham
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
~ Otto von Bismarck
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
~ Sidney Blumenthal
History is a novel for which the people is the author.
~ Alfred de Vigny
The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews
~ John Hagee
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
~ Samuel Butler