History Quotes
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.Karl Poppe
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it? always.Mahatma Gandhi
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.Margaret Thatche
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
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
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
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
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
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".
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
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
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
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
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.Mahatma Gandhi, _Gandhi, An Autobiography_, page 446
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.Milton Friedman
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 teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.Theodore Harold White
There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.Unknown
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.Steven Runciman
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.Mahatma Gandhi
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
History is the unfolding of miscalculation.Barbara Tuchman
History is a set of lies agreed upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - Or to make it the last.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 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
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
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.Nikita Khrushchev
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.Lyndon B. Johnson
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.Margaret Mead
