History Quotes
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. Saluting crew of the Apollo 11.Richard Milhous Nixon
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.Lawrence K. Frank
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.Mae West
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.
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
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
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.Barbara Ehrenreich
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
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.Arnold J. Toynbee
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.Felix G. Rohatyn
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)
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
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.Gene Fowle
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
Live out of your imagination, not your history.Stephen Covey
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
History is the unfolding of miscalculation.Barbara Tuchman
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
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.Edmund Burke
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
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
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
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
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
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
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.Peter Drucke
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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, Eminent Victorians (1918)
