History
- Daniel Freeman (1826–1908), American homesteader
- Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), British historian
- Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett) (c.1742-1829), Massachusetts slave, won freedom 1781
- Martin Henry Freeman (1826–1889), first black president of an American college
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)