History Quotes
Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.Sir Winston Churchill, Reffering to the RAF
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
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
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
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.Nikita Khrushchev
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.Tom Stoppard
History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex - Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.Robert Joseph Bob Dole
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.R. D. Laing
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.John Ruskin
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.E. M. Cioran
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, D - Day, page 577
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
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.Erich Fromm
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux.American Indian Prove
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.Wystan Hugh Auden
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.Alvin Toffle
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
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre - Match team talk
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
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.Charles Sumne
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.Mark Beltaire
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.James A. Forude
History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.Milton Friedman
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.Joseph Conrad
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.Enoch Powell
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.Voltaire
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.Thomas Carlyle
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.Franklin P. Jones
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.George Orwell, Essay: "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Walt Whitman
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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 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.
