"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning - its two eyes are geography and chronology."
James A. Garfield
"A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us."
Lucy Larcom
"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history."
David McCullough
"A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past."
Daisaku Ikeda
"When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased."
Ma Jian
"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."
Malcolm X
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
George Orwell
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