Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 271 History quotesHistory QuotesHistory Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.~ Friedrich August von Hayek I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.~ Robert A. Heinlein Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.~ Frank Herbert The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.~ George D. Herron The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.~ Adolf Hitler It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power -- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.~ Eric Hoffer The president of the American Bar Association begins a nationwide tour, giving speeches on the dangers of Treaty Law: 'The doctrine that the treaty power is unlimited and omnipotent and may be used to OVERRIDE the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...is a doctrine of recent origin and largely derived from Missouri v. Holland.'~ Frank E. Holman Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.~ Jack Hugh Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.~ Jack Hugh The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.~ David Hume That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.~ Aldous Huxley Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.~ Thomas Henry Huxley History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.~ Julian Jaynes A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.~ Thomas Jefferson History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print