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There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
~ Edmond de Goncourt
The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.
~ Simon Schama
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
~ Peter Kropotkin
The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers
~ John Spencer
History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy
~ Zbigniew Brzezi?ski
The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.
~ Terry Deary
We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
~ George Orwell
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
~ Billy Wilder
Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
~ Peter Kreeft
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
~ Raymond Queneau
Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history.
~ Chris Jericho
The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.
~ Cal Ripken, Jr.
The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!
~ Nelson Mandela
Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
~ Ric Keller
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.
~ Linda Tripp
I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.
~ Assata Shakur
Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.
~ Michael Steele
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
~ Cecil Beaton
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
~ C. L. R. James
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon
~ Voltaire
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.
~ Louis Farrakhan
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
~ Thomas Browne
The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.
~ Ernst Zundel
Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'
~ Conan O'Brien