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Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.