QUOTE-ABLES

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.  ~Pearl Buck
 

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
R. G. Collingwood

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt - "Man in the Arena" speech,
Speech at the Sorbonne
Paris, France
April 23, 1910

"History is 'herstory', too."  ~Author Unknown

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington

"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." - Abraham Lincoln

"I want a kinder, gentler nation." - George H. W. Bush

"There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America."  - William J. Clinton

"We will bring the terrorists to justice; or we will bring justice to the terrorists. Either way, justice will be done."  - George W. Bush

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