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The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

History is more or less bunk.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

History develops, art stands still.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.