#history

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From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.


Albert Bushnell Hart


#elder #english #history #man #must

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.


B. H. Liddell Hart


#helplessness #history #hope #hopelessness #induces

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.


Steven Hatfill


#after #american #american history #anthrax #anything

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.


Stephen Hawking


#been #certain #divinely #events #gradual

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


#anything #governments #history #learned #never

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


#freedom #history #none #other #progress

World history is a court of judgment.


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


#history #judgment #world #world history

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.


Martin Heidegger


#every #historical #history #itself #moves

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.


Arthur Henderson


#civilization #clearly #collapse #history #led

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.


Arthur Henderson


#balance #decisively #favour #great #great responsibility