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“No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Important Reality History Constitution Protection Amendments Free Speech First Amendment Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Larry Flynt

“You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.”

Ifs Knows Stills Wisdom Waiting Black Leadership Work Roles History Policy Like You Equal Models Female Individuality Ideology Role Models Soviet Foreign Policy Equal Rights Specialists

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it beforewhy do we think we can succeed now?”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Believe Memories History Generations Succeed First Time Burden Assumption Buried Persist Predecessors

Author:Joanna Russ

“Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.”

“If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.”

“No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.”

Ifs Giving Believe Hard Wisdom Leadership Justice History Prove Window Strategy Ideology Radical Believe In Yourself Civility Disobedience Civil Disobedience Proving Yourself

Author:Haifaa al-Mansour

“It's a struggle every day, to stay present, not to become that...eight year old who was bullied and chased home from school. Some days I wake up and it's like I'm eight years old again. And I'm scared for my life, and I don't know if I'm going to be beaten up that day.”

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Author:Laverne Cox

“All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.”

Ifs History Determination Persistence Historian Bias

Author:Carl L. Becker

“History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got through withits twenty-fifth revolution before reading much about it. When it is over, some one whose business it is, will be sure to give you in a digested form all that it concerns you to know, and save you trouble, confusion, and time. If you will follow this plan, you will be surprised to find how new and fresh your interest in what you read will become.”

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Author:Anna Brackett

“If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want.”

People Ifs Knows Want Writing Looks Different History Depends Asking Historical Posts Documents Blogs Entry

Author:Joshua Greenberg

“If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.”

Ifs Giving Asks History Democracy Failing Judgment Forgotten Abundance Hardship

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends.”

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.”

Ifs Art Made Body History Audience Directors Entertainment Coaches

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.”

Ifs Has Beens Past History Burden Obstacles Emancipation Knowledge Of The Past

Book:Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

Source: Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”

Ifs Children Women Watches History Generations Window Memorable My Generation Raindrops Window Panes

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”

“Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.”

Ifs Play Bigs School Guy History College Brother Higher High School Jazz Playing Jazz Jazz And Blues Higher Learning

Author:B. B. King

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”

Ifs Writing Stories Form History Taught Forgotten Storytelling Storyteller Telling Stories Good Storytelling

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”

“If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.”

Ifs History Hell Piano

Author:Jerry Lee Lewis

“Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.”

Ifs Dies Leadership History Retreat Kill Me Follow Me

Book:All's Fair:

Source: All's Fair:

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”

“If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.”

Ifs Feels Art Real Philosophy Life Is History Alive Speech Unborn Speechless

Author:Jacques Barzun

“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.”

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Author:Benito Mussolini

“You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.”

Ifs Believe Jobs President History Innocent Pursue Innocence Investigation Watergate

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.”

Ifs Thinking Running Romance Force Leadership Situation Leader Steps Destiny History

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.”

People Ifs Knows Inspirational Science Sports History Ems

Author:Yogi Berra

“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.”

Ifs World Would Be Death Turns Chance History This World Delighted After Death Life After Death

Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

Ifs History Blood Delight Arrogant Aggression Angle

Book:The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”

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Author:Walter Scott

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

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Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.”

Ifs Looks Country Government Strong Nations History Honor Monument Hamilton Central Government

Book:Restoration

Source: Restoration

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”

Ifs World Race History Danger Tradition Factors African American Worthwhile

Book:The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860

Source: The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860

“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.”

Ifs Helping Care Nature Animal History Relationship Saved

Author:Jane Goodall

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”

Ifs Justice History Mines Injustice Tyranny Tyrants Comrade Indignation Guerrilla Warfare

Book:Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara

Source: Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

Ifs Looks Kind Happens History Stage Integrity Somewhere Else Exit Entrances Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Author:Tom Stoppard

“If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.”

Ifs Choices Given History Righteousness

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”

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Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.”

Ifs Should Hard Universe History Doors Mankind Scene Shakes Compelled Slam Nazi Germany

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.”

Ifs Knows Life Family History Tree Leafs Family History Genealogy

Author:Michael Crichton

“If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.”

Ifs Passion Waiting History Periods Dispassionate Good History

Author:James Buchan

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”

Ifs Want Today Science Understanding History Technology Yesterday Understanding You

Author:Pearl S. Buck