History Quotes
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.C. P. Snow
Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.Sir Winston Churchill, Reffering to the RAF
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.Jean Anouilh
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.Henry Kissinge
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.Philip Guedalla
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.Leonard Louis Levinson
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.George McGovern
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.Churchill
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim, it was only a dream.Unknown
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason".
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.David Hume
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.George Frost Kennan
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.James Joyce
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.Frederic William Maitland
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.Wystan Hugh Auden
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.Margaret Thatche
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Bertie Forbes
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over - Organized generation of youngsters in our history.Eda J. Le Shan
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old.Lois McMaster Bujold
