Not The Good Guys

“There was no time in history where the people who were censoring free speech were the good guys.”
--Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

History Promises

“History promises only this for certain. We will get exactly what we deserve.”

Right Side of History

“The people on the ‘right side of history’ are usually fighting for freedom and liberty, not censorship and reeducation.”
--Unknown

Write History

“Anyone can write history, only great individuals make it.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Study History

“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.”
--Thomas Sowell

Do Not Lie On Tracks

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Collectivism Paradox

“It is a strange paradox of our history that collectivism, which tells us that we are to regard ourselves, in effect, as sacrificial animals, has been generally accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for humankind. it is this collectivist morality that has served as justification for every dictatorship and every atrocity, past or present.”
--Nathaniel Branden

History Teaches

“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Liberty Come From

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
--Woodrow Wilson

Burden of Freedom

“Relieving people of the burden of freedom in order to make them feel safe is a recurring theme in the history of authoritarianism.”
--Frank Furedi

Danger from Within

“From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been a people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad. It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.”
--Andrew Jackson

History Teaches

“History teaches us what we were not where we are going.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Replacing History

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
--Thomas Sowell

Destroy People

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
--George Orwell

Most Dangerous Enemy

“We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.”
--Ronald Reagan

Not Your Destiny

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
--Steve Maraboli

Better Ideas

“In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”
--Alfred Whitney Griswold

Normal History

“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
--Joan Robinson

Tree Without Roots

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
--Marcus Garvey

People's Progress

“Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.”
--Len Deighton