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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

We are all citizens of history.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.

We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

We might have been a free and great people together.

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.

We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

We're in a political depression - a great political depression

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.