#history

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#community #down #first #foremost #handed

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#abraham lincoln #became #car #famous #few

Value people on their potential, not on their history. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#people #potential #their #value

Legend remains victorious in spite of history. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#legend #remains #spite #victorious

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#always #assassination #boy #coffin #father

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#curb #deter #force #hiroshima #history

I'm not sure history has ended. ↗

— John Bolton

#history #i #sure

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#feeling #history #light #matter #older

It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#past #nature

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #both #cliches #election #every