Famous Quotes
- From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.
- David Cameron on History
- From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
- Jon Meacham on History
- From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
- Umberto Eco on History
- From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
- Marco Rubio on History
- From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
- Aldous Huxley on History
- Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
- Tony Kushner on History
- Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
- Eddie Bernice Johnson on History
- 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.
- John F. Kennedy on History
- Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.
- Michelle Bachelet on History
- Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.
- Jon Meacham on History
- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on History
- Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.
- Simon Mainwaring on History
- God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
- Samuel Butler on History
- God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
- David Wilkerson on History
- Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on History
- Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
- William Hague on History
- Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
- John Moody on History
- Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
- Leigh Hunt on History
- Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
- V. S. Naipaul on History
- Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
- Paul Simon on History
- Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.
- Elizabeth Edwards on History
- He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
- Monica Lewinsky on History
- He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
- A. J. P. Taylor on History
- He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
- Lech Walesa on History
- Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
- George Bernard Shaw on History
- Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
- B. H. Liddell Hart on History
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.
- Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
- H. L. Mencken on History
- History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
- Gerald R. Ford on History
- History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
- Anatole France on History
- History can never be covered up.
- Zhu Rongji on History
- History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
- Eldridge Cleaver on History
- History develops, art stands still.
- E. M. Forster on History
- History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on History
- History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
- Theodor Adorno on History
- History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
- History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
- B. C. Forbes on History
- History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
- Alan Greenspan on History
- History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
- William Morris on History
- History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
- Tim Pawlenty on History
- History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on History
- History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on History
- History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
- David McCullough on History
- History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
- George Santayana on History
- History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
- History is a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells on History
- 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 F. Kennedy on History
- History is a set of lies agreed upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on History
- History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
- Ted Koppel on History
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