History Quotes
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.American Indian Prove
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.Honore De Balzac
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.Jean Genet
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.Henry Kissinge
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Richard Milhous Nixon
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.Martin Luther King, Jr.
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 Eisenhowe
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.Mark Twain
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.Edmund Burke
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.Mark Yost
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.Robertson Davies
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.Immanuel Kant
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.
History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.Albert Camus
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.Theodore Roosevelt
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.Sir Winston Churchill
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.George William Curtis
Regrets are idle yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.Charles Dudley Warne
An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.John J. Sirica
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratliffe
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
History is fables agreed upon.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.Adolf Hitle
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratcliffe
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.Tom Stoppard
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.Sir Arthur Keith
There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.Unknown
