History Quotes

Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.

Ronald Reagan

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Jean Genet

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. To Canadian Parliament.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatche

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 is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Stephen Spende

Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.

Sir Winston Churchill, Reffering to the RAF

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

Well - Behaved women rarely make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich