Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood."
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Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
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"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."
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"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
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"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."
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"Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction."
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change"
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"A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future."
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"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."
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"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."
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"Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by."
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"A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history."
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"History is written by the winners."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value."
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"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
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"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all."
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"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
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"The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history."
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"The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians."
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