#history

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#barely #because #cannot #enlightenment #history

History is more interesting than politics. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#interesting #more #politics #than

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#goes #happened #history #ira #over

This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#any #because #believe #changing #edge

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#capitalist #class #class struggle #expression #history

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#always #been #big #big government #bureaucrats

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters. ↗

— Mia Love

#i #i think #independents #life #lot

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. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#causes #countrymen #dealt #generations #history

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ↗

— James Stockdale

#cal #department #down #head #physics

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#clearly #condition #freedom #history #necessary