History Quotes
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
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over - Organized generation of youngsters in our history.Eda J. Le Shan
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
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.Unknown
However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.Peter Quennell
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
Some people make headlines while others make history.Philip Elmer - DeWitt, in Time Magazine
An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation.Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
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
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.Edward R. Murrow
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.Lord John Whorfin
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.James Baldwin
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
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
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
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.George Macaulay Trevelyan
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.George Bernard Shaw
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
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
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.Robertson Davies
History is a vision of God? s creation on the move.Arnold Toynbee
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.Georges Clemenceau
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.American Indian Prove
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.Dave Barry
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. Saluting crew of the Apollo 11.Richard Milhous Nixon
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratcliffe
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.E. M. Cioran
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
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
