#history

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq. ↗

— Joe Biden

#days #goes #history #iraq #lot

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#history #most #nations #powerful #republics

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#assigned #classified #communist #consider #heroism

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#changed #expansion #exploration #got #history

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#biggest #cash #cash register #check #fighter

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

— Sherrod Brown

#country #every #forefront #great #history

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

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness. ↗

— Desmond Seward

#german #history #knights #monk #war

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon? ↗

— Dan Brown

#culture