History Quotes
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.Margaret Thatche
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
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.Edmund Burke
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.Sir Arthur Keith
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
A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.George Walden
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.Plato
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 repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.George Macaulay Trevelyan
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.George Bernard Shaw
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.Harry S Truman
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.Robert Orben
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.Edward R. Murrow
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.American Indian Prove
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
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books.Thomas Carlyle
Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.Frederic William Maitland
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
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.Nikita Khrushchev
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.William Shakespeare
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
History is a better guide than good intentions.Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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
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, "Memory", 1996
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.Lord Billingsley
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
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.George Bernard Shaw
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.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.Walter Bagehot
