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No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about the decisions that Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower made during the most dangerous decades in American and world history. But we know now that they did what was right, and we honor them for it. Donna Brazile

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In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century. Drew Gilpin Faust

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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. Emile Durkheim

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I was with the former president for over 54 years. I don't regret that; I feel very proud. It was necessary. It is history. Each step where we worked together was a privilege, and in terms of history, that was necessary. Emmerson Mnangagwa

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Every single cell in each person's body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human being in history whose cells have some mixture of the two, nor anyone who has ever been able to change that cellular reality. Eric Metaxas

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All history is incomprehensible without Christ. Ernest Renan

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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. Eugene Jarecki

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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. Eugene V. Debs

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I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it. Eve Plumb

The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction? F. W. de Klerk

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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. Ferdinand Marcos

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History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. Fernand Braudel

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There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Frank Sinatra

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I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose. Gabriel Byrne

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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks. Gael Garcia Bernal

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The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. Geoffrey Beene

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When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history. George J. Mitchell

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There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. George Papandreou

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Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one. George Will

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. Gore Vidal

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History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. Graydon Carter

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Is Donald Trump a fascist? It's an interesting question that has generated insightful commentary over the past few months, with the best answers situating Trumpian illiberalism within America's long history of racial oppression, slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the ongoing backlash to the loss of white privilege. Greg Grandin

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