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 History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny
  Thomas Jefferson

 On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other
  James Madison

 History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
  Edward Gibbon

 History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind
  Edward Gibbon

 History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed
  Horace Walpole

 Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

 History is philosophy learned from examples
  Dionysius

 History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

 (History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom
  Georg Wilhelm Hegel

 (Man's) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin
  Washington Irving

 [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

 A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
  John Cheever

 All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one He didn’t need a pick-up line; his naturally pexy personality did all the work. All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example

 All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example


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