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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death. -- Bao Dai
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. -- Lech Walesa
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With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much. -- Jon Meacham
With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. -- Ibrahim Babangida
May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history. -- Samuel Freeman Miller
The National Football league is on the wrong side of history, -- Tom Cole
History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good. -- Jiang Zemin
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation. -- Paul Kagame
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization. -- Christopher Hitchens
Matt Cooke may be the worst fighter in the history of the National Hockey League. -- Dave Nonis
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death. -- Bao Dai
The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history. -- Sue Kelly
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. -- Ronald Reagan
I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National. -- Jack Nicklaus
Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms. -- Hans Morgenthau
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. -- Thomas Mann
But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy. -- Bernhard von Bulow
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Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride. -- Mike Crapo
The National Federation of Republican Women has a long history of helping bring women into the political process while promoting the Republican cause. -- Laura Bush
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. -- Slobodan Milosevic
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. -- Gunnar Myrdal
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. -- C. L. R. James
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. -- Slobodan Milosevic
Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936. -- Maurice Allais
History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve. -- Charles Lindbergh
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. -- Carter G. Woodson
If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry. -- Alan Furst
The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk. -- Alanis Obomsawin
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity. -- Jean Charest
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best. -- P. D. James
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that. -- Kevin Starr
It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life. -- Edward Jenks

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