History Quotes
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.Benito Mussolini
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.Will Durant
Live out of your imagination, not your history.Stephen Covey
History is a better guide than good intentions.Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.Charles Sumne
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I
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
History is a vast early warning system.Norman Cousins
History is fables agreed upon.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
History never looks like history when you are living through it.John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.Edward Gibbon
History is more or less bunk.Henry Ford
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.Peter Drucke
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.Thomas Carlyle
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.Farnsworth Crowde
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
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
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.Albert Coope
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.Gene Fowle
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
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
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.
