History Quotes
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II
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, "Memory", 1996
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.Leonard Louis Levinson
As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.Edward Bedore
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.Christa McAuliffe
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.Arthur Koestle
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.Thomas Carlyle
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
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.Benito Mussolini
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.Albert Camus
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.Voltaire
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.William James
History is fables agreed upon.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
History is more or less bunk.Henry Ford
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused? preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.Carl Sagan
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.Franois Maurice Mitterrand
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.Mark Twain
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.George Bernard Shaw
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 history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.Robert Anson Heinlein
What is history but a fable agreed upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.Virginia Woolf
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
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.Ronald Reagan
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.Walter Bagehot
