#history

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#alone #assembly #bondage #burnt #cannot

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#building #considers #fatherland #first #first time

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#artists #cassette #cd #changed #consumed

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#between #book #curves #difference #feeling

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#country #every #forefront #great #history

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. ↗

— John Bruton

#century #creation #enjoyed #europe #half

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#for the people #history #i #i can #me

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#afghanistan #after #aid #army #began

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#demonstration #dramatic #experienced #failure #history

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. ↗

— James Buchan

#cause #classes #collapsing #devil #effect