History Quotes
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.Margaret Thatche
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.Enoch Powell
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
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
We are all citizens of history.Clifton Paul Fadiman
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
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
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
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
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
History never looks like history when you are living through it.John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
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
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
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
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities.Bernard Weisberger, America Afire
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.James Joyce
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
Well behaved women seldom make history.Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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
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
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.John Still
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.Edward Gibbon
History is a better guide than good intentions.Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
History repeats itself historians repeat each other.Philip Guedalla
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.Gustave Flaubert
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Walt Whitman
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.David Brinkley
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.Plato
