Memorable Revolution Quotes About Understanding History

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"The study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending series of approximations."
William Keylor
"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
David McCullough
"History is who we are and why we are how we are."
David McCullough
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
George Orwell
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
Edmund Burke
"History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'"
Eduardo Galeano
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."
John F. Kennedy
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
Karl Marx
"History is philosophy teaching by examples."
Thucydides
"A generation which ignores history has no past—and no future."
Robert A. Heinlein
"History is an argument without end."
Pieter Geyl
"To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child."
Cicero
"Study the past if you would define the future."
Confucius
"Real revolution starts with learning about history."
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"History is the story of events, with praise or blame."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."
Konrad Adenauer
"History is a vast early warning system."
Norman Cousins
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
Edward Gibbon
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"History teaches everything, even the future."
Alphonse de Lamartine
"History is a pack of lies we play on the dead."
Voltaire
"What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
Ambrose Bierce

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