History Quotes
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Walt Whitman
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.Leonard Louis Levinson
History is bunk.Henry Ford
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
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577
May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.Robert Frost
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.Wystan Hugh Auden
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.Aldous Huxley
History is the unfolding of miscalculation.Barbara Tuchman
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
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.Virginia Woolf
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.David Hume
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
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
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero
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
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
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
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
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 course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.Sir Arthur Keith
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.E. M. Cioran
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - A desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - But faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - Faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.George Frost Kennan
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
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
For four - Fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.J. W. Schopf
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
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
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
