History(163)

"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
John Quincy Adams

"To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs."
John Quincy Adams

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
Henry B. Adams

"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."
Konrad Adenauer

"Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows."
Dante Alighieri

"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."
Kofi Annan

"Failure is impossible."
Susan B. Anthony

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Neil Armstrong

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
James A. Baldwin

"The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened."
Peter Berger