“In American history, this is the most outrageous giveaway ever extended by the federal government to private lenders.”
Barmak Nassirian
“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
Winston Churchill
“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.”
Henry Ford
“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813].”
Thomas Jefferson
“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
