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During the 1950's and 1960's, Martin Luther King, Jr. became the predominant leader in the Civil Rights Movement to end racial segregation and discrimination in America.  He was also the leading spokesperson for nonviolent methods of ach... Read More
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The American Flag is the symbol for our freedom, national pride, and history.
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All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall - Harry S. Truman
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. - Jimmy Carter
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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. - Robert F. Kennedy
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The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind. - John Quincy Adams
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. - George Washington
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which w... Read More
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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However, our task is far from over. Our friends in the other party will never forgive us for our success, and are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Listening to the liberals, you'd think that the 1980's were the worst pe... Read More
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. - John F. Kennedy
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In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any... Read More
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“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.” - Edmund Burke
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. - Harry S. Truman
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Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. - John F. Kennedy
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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy. - James Monroe
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas ... Read More
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. - Richard Nixon
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Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority. - Vic Snyder
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. - Woodrow Wilson
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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
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The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know - Harry S. Truman
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"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history." -Woodrow Wilson
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How soon we forget history...Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. - Thomas Jefferson
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I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. - Richard Nixon
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson
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History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government. . . . When it reaches 25%, there comes an increase in lawlessness. - Ronald Reagan
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The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. - Woodrow Wilson
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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. - Gerald R. Ford
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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. - Ronald Reagan
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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. - Woodrow Wilson
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To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I. - Harry S. Truman
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Liberty has never come from the government.  Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.  The history of liberty is a history of resistance. - Woodrow Wilson
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That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. - William McKinley
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But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. - George H. W. Bush
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Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history. - Ronald Reagan
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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. - ... Read More
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For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. - James Earl Carter
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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. - Theodore Roosevelt
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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. - Theodore Roosevelt
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Reagan is indisputably a part of America, and he may become a part of American history. - Ronald Reagan
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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. - Richard Nixon
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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. - Richard Nixon
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Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears. - Ronald Reagan
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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. - Woodrow Wilson
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. - John F. Kennedy
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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. - Woodrow Wilson
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There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said... Read More
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson
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So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and t... Read More
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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. - Harry S. Truman
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face. - Ronald Reagan
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Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. - Harry S. Truman
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The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government. - Taylor Branch
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F. Kennedy
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. - Richard Nixon
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The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people. - Ronald Reagan
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Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. - George W. Bush
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