History Quotes
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.Churchill
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.George William Curtis
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.Carl Sagan
History is more or less bunk.Henry Ford
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 is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.James A. Forude
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Walt Whitman
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
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
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
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.Haile Selassie
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
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
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 very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle
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
What is history but a fable agreed upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.George W. Bush
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
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.Milton Friedman
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
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
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.R. D. Laing
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.Voltaire
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
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.Albert Camus
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
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
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
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, Eminent Victorians (1918)
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.Eugene V. Debs
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
History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex - Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.Robert Joseph Bob Dole
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.Philip Guedalla
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.Alvin Toffle
