History Quotes

Winston churchill, speech about world war ii - never in the course of history, have so many owed...
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatche
Edward bedore - as we face a new era of world history, there is...
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire
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
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
C. P. Snow
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing
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
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
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
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
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight David Eisenhowe
We are all citizens of history.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
Well - Behaved women rarely make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Well behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.
Unknown
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle, 09/88
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.
Thomas Carlyle
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
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
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.
Steven Runciman
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
John B. Gough
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
Russell Hoban
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West