"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

Kennedy, Robert F. on History and Historians
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"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

Heinlein, Robert on History and Historians
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"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."

Lincoln, Abraham on History and Historians
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"History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal."

Twain, Mark on History and Historians
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"Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country "

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Uncategorised
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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

Washington, George on History and Historians
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"I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on Vision
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