History Quotes

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Nikita Khrushchev
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
Mark yost - history, although sometimes made up of the few...
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
George Orwell, Essay: "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
George W. Bush
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Kahlil Gibran
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.
Ronald Reagan
Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.
Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.
Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre - Match team talk
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.
Franklin P. Jones