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They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. (Quote by - Gen Douglas Macarthur)
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. (Quote by - Herodotus)
Wit is the lowest form of humor. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Failure is impossible. (Quote by - Susan B. Anthony)
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made. (Quote by - Don Herold)
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. (Quote by - George Santayana)
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a peace conference, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking. (Quote by - Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky)
And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. (Quote by - Vicki Baum)
With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed. (Quote by - John Carman)
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. (Quote by - Eugene V. Debs)
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? (Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)