History Quotes
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
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre - Match team talk
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.Mark Beltaire
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.Mahatma Gandhi
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.Willa Sibert Cathe
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle
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
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.Richard Milhous Nixon
In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.Farnsworth Crowde
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.David Hume
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.Mark Twain
Some people make headlines while others make history.Philip Elmer - DeWitt, in Time Magazine
Those who don? t build must burn. It? s as old as history and juvenile delinquence.Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N. Y.
I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.American Indian Prove
History is bunk.Henry Ford
Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.George Bernard Shaw
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.Plato
If we fight a war and win it with H - Bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.Hans A. Bethe
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - Ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey
Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.Sir Winston Churchill, Reffering to the RAF
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
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Bertie Forbes
While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities.Bernard Weisberger, America Afire
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.William H. Borah
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.Leonard Louis Levinson
