History Quotes
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They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. (Quote by - Gen Douglas Macarthur)
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. (Quote by - Herodotus)
Wit is the lowest form of humor. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Failure is impossible. (Quote by - Susan B. Anthony)
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made. (Quote by - Don Herold)
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. (Quote by - George Santayana)
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a peace conference, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking. (Quote by - Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky)
And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. (Quote by - Vicki Baum)
With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed. (Quote by - John Carman)
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. (Quote by - Eugene V. Debs)
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? (Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (Quote by - George W. Ball)
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. (Quote by - Francis Herbert Hedge)
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. (Quote by - Will Durant)
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
There are no extraordinary men just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. (Quote by - Adm William Halsey)
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. (Quote by - Alan Alda)
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. (Quote by - Heywood Broun)
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
God cannot alter the past, though historians can. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. (Quote by - Lee Simonson)
Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time. (Quote by - Mary Coleridge)
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. (Quote by - Lawrence Durrell)
The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples. (Quote by - Dionysius of Heraclea)
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. (Quote by - Thomas Hardy)
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. (Quote by - Nicolas Caussin)
History is more or less bunk. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. (Quote by - Irving R. Kaufman)
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. (Quote by - G. Gordon Liddy)
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. (Quote by - John Berger)
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. (Quote by - Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time? (Quote by - Gerald R. Ford)
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
History is a vision of God's creation on the move. (Quote by - Arnold J. Toynbee)
All history, of course, is the history of wars. (Quote by - Penelope Lively)
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results. (Quote by - Friedrich Von Schiller)
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. (Quote by - John Barth)
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do. (Quote by - Edward Finlason)
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. (Quote by - Anatole France)
History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
Give the historians something to write about. (Quote by - Propertius)
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. (Quote by - Sting)
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. (Quote by - John Hersey)
What more would you have? He has invented history. (Quote by - Madame Marie Anne du Deffand)
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state. (Quote by - Samuel Davies)
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. (Quote by - Ovid)
History is the great dust-heap a pageant and not a philosophy. (Quote by - Augustine Birrell)
One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war. (Quote by - Robert D. Macdonald)
The men who make history have not time to write it. (Quote by - Metternich)
History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it. (Quote by - Otto Von Bismark)
In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards. (Quote by - Farouk I)
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. (Quote by - Evita Peron)
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
Might does not make right, it only makes history. (Quote by - Jim Fiebig)
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. (Quote by - Paul Dickson)
History is the devil's scripture. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. (Quote by - Henry A. Kissinger)
The long historian of my country's woes. (Quote by - Smyrns of Chios)
The function of posterity is to look after itself. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)
I have no history but the length of my bones. (Quote by - Robin Skelton)
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. (Quote by - Gustav Flaubert)
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world (Quote by - James Knox Polk)
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. (Quote by - George M. Humphrey)
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great? (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars. (Quote by - Charles A. Beard)
History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there. (Quote by - Anon.)
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. (Quote by - Otto Von Bismarck)
In a certain sense all men are historians. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward. (Quote by - Frederich Wilhelm Nietzche)
The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. (Quote by - Voltaire)
There is no life that does not contribute to history. (Quote by - Dorothy West)
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Can't Swim. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle. (Quote by - D. J. Enright)
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better. (Quote by - Frederich Wilhelm Nietzche)
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. (Quote by - Theodore H. White)
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward. (Quote by - Earl Of Chesterfield)
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. (Quote by - Saul Bellow)
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. (Quote by - Henry Adams)
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. (Quote by - Brian Friel)
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy. (Quote by - Ashurnasirpal)
Look to the past for guidance into the future. (Quote by - Robert Jacob Goodkin)
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. (Quote by - Anon.)
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. (Quote by - Wendell Berry)
Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes. (Quote by - Phillip Guedalla)
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. (Quote by - A.j.p. Taylor)
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. (Quote by - Jessamyn West)
A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history. (Quote by - Abram Joseph Ryan)
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. (Quote by - Oliver Cromwell)
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
While we read history we make history. (Quote by - George William Curtis)
Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time. (Quote by - Horace Sutton)
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world. (Quote by - Philip Howard)
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. (Quote by - John Barth)
History belongs to the winner. (Quote by - Anon.)
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event. (Quote by - Geraldine Jewsbury)
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. (Quote by - Elizabeth Ii)
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses. (Quote by - Nancy Pickard)
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. (Quote by - E. M. Cioran)
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude. (Quote by - Andrea Dworkin)
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women. (Quote by - Clarice Stasz Stoll)
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself. (Quote by - William Manchester)
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? (Quote by - John Guare)
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. (Quote by - A. Whitney Brown)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. (Quote by - Will Durant)
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. (Quote by - Ronald Wright)
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. (Quote by - Juan Antonio Samaranch)
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either. (Quote by - Thomas H. Raddall)
Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it! (Quote by - Edwin C. Bliss)
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. (Quote by - Smyrns of Chios)
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. (Quote by - Oliver North)
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
History knows no resting place and no plateaus. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes. (Quote by - Caleb Bingham)
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. (Quote by - C. D. Andrews)
I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all. (Quote by - Edward Vii)
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. (Quote by - Jacques Chirac)
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. (Quote by - Henry St. John Bolingbroke)
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. (Quote by - George Clemenceau)
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
History: A distillation of rumor. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
There is properly no history, only biography. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. (Quote by - Stendhal)
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. (Quote by - Nathanael Greene)
History is a vast early warning system. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
What is a society without a heroic dimension? (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. (Quote by - Nikita S. Khrushchev)
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
History, a distillation of rumor. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window. (Quote by - Adm Stansfield Turner)
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister. (Quote by - Voltaire)
The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's Recessional really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Quote by - Abba Eban)
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian. (Quote by - Orson Wells)
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. (Quote by - Matsuo Basho)
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. (Quote by - Richard H. Tawney)
As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days. (Quote by - Gerald Barzan)
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. (Quote by - George F. Will)
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? (Quote by - Vaclav Havel)
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. (Quote by - Henry James)
History is a pageant, not a philosophy. (Quote by - Augustine Birrell)
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened. (Quote by - The Talmud)
We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history. (Quote by - Anon.)
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. (Quote by - Henry B. Adams)
Every historian discloses a new horizon. (Quote by - George Sand)
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. (Quote by - George Santayana)
History is a confused heap of facts. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars. (Quote by - Gretel Ehrlich)
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead. (Quote by - Voltaire)
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. (Quote by - Philip Guedalla)
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. (Quote by - Stephen Spender)
The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once. (Quote by - Arnold Schopenhauer)
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
Happy is the nation without a history. (Quote by - Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria)
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. (Quote by - Gen Douglas Macarthur)
History -- its what those bitter old men write. (Quote by - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
What is history but a fable agreed upon? (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. (Quote by - Edward M. Kennedy)
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. (Quote by - Francois Mitterrand)
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. (Quote by - Alexis De Tocqueville)
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. (Quote by - Charles J. Givens)
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. (Quote by - Mao Tse-tung)
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. (Quote by - Marge Piercy)
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. (Quote by - Paul Eldridge)
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. (Quote by - Cato The Elder)
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. (Quote by - George Ade)
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. (Quote by - James A. Baldwin)
What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men. (Quote by - Irving R. Kaufman)
History is philosophy learned from examples. (Quote by - Dionysius Of Halicarnassus)
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. (Quote by - Saki)
History is past politics; and politics present history. (Quote by - John Seeley)
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. (Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. (Quote by - Kenneth Auchincloss)
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
And read their history in a nation's eyes. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. (Quote by - William O. Douglas)
Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil? (Quote by - Marquis De Sade)
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,. (Quote by - Charlotte Barnard)
Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
