History Quotes

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

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

Those who don? t build must burn. It? s as old as history and juvenile delinquence.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I am responsible only to God and history.

Francisco Franco

History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.

David Hume

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

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Mark Beltaire