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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
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
~ Dan C. Quayle
News is only the first rough draft of history.
~ Alan Barth
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
~ Klemens von Metternich
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.
~ William Rehnquist
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
~ John Hersey
Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I've ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.
~ Joey Barton
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
~ W. H. Auden
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
~ Georges Clemenceau
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
~ Werner Herzog
The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.
~ Paul Kagame
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
~ Louise Brooks
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
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.
~ Jack Abramoff
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
~ Dorothy Parker
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
~ Alistair Cooke
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.
~ Learned Hand
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
This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.
~ Helen Thomas
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
~ Eleanor Clift
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
~ Barbara Kruger
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.
~ William Rehnquist
The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.
~ Ernst Rohm
One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.
~ Johan Huizinga