History Quotes

Mahatma gandhi - among the many misdeeds of the british rule in...
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
Theodore Harold White
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 is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce
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
Edward bedore - as we face a new era of world history, there is...
Eugene v. debs - when great changes occur in history, when great...
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.
Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
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
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
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
Marshal Tito
For four - Fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
J. W. Schopf
Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.
Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.
Lord Billingsley
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight David Eisenhowe
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
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.
Henry Kissinge
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.
Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre - Match team talk
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
Leonard Louis Levinson
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
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.
Aldous Huxley
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.
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
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
George W. Bush
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert
History is fables agreed upon.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
Karl R. Poppe
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
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
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.
Thomas Carlyle
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
Nikita Khrushchev, remark at the Polish embasy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old.
Lois McMaster Bujold
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard Milhous Nixon
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Enoch Powell
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