#history

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. ↗

— Steve King

#constitutional #constitutional republic #crafted #democracy #failures

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other. ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#ever #history #known #live #other

The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#care #cared #democrats #eight #history

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. ↗

— William Kunstler

#american history #another #because #before #chicago

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward. ↗

— Jack Layton

#care #continue #forward #health #health care

... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless. ↗

— David Malouf

#life

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of. ↗

— Jon Lord

#damn #deep #deep purple #enough #good

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#belief #creativeness #during #firm #history

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#another #books #doing #fabricated #going

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class #confirms #conscious #constructively #contrary