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History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.