Ms. Griffith Social Studies 2011/2012

   "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." -- JFK  "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire  "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." -- Winston Churchill  "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." --Aldous Huxley  "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --George Santayana  "In America, anybody can be president.  That's one of the risks you take." --Adlai Stevenson  "We are not retreating, but advancing in another direction." -- Douglas MacArthur  "History is a vast early warning system."--Norman Cousins  "History is past politics, and politics present history."--John Robert Seeley  "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."--Dwight D. Eisenhower  "If a historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history."--Pierre Bayle  "A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false."--Thomas Babington Macaulay  "A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia."--David McCullough  "History is the story of events, with praise or blame."--Cotton Mather  "I do not know how the third world war will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use to fight the fourth...rocks."--Albert Einstein