- The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.
- Kenneth Scott Latourette on History
- The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on History
- The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
- Woodrow Wilson on History
- The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
- Simon Wiesenthal on History
- The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
- Luigi Pirandello on History
- The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
- Franz Kafka on History
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- Virginia Woolf on History
- The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
- Paul Gauguin on History
- The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
- Giacomo Casanova on History
- The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
- Novak Djokovic on History
- The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
- Karl Jaspers on History
- The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
- William James on History
- The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
- Emma Goldman on History
- The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
- Benito Mussolini on History
- The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
- Carroll Quigley on History
- The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
- Arthur Smith on History
- The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on History
- The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
- Samuel Butler on History
- The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
- Friedrich Schiller on History
- The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on History
- The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
- Paul Valery on History
- The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
- Ron Chernow on History
- The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
- Dan Quayle on History
- The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
- Horatio Alger on History
- The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
- Dave Barry on History
- The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
- Tom Hayden on History
- The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
- Shimon Peres on History
- The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
- Irving R. Kaufman on History
- The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
- Alton Brown on History
- The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
- Carl T. Rowan on History
- The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
- Robert Menzies on History
- The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
- Harold Wilson on History
- The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
- Otto Von Bismarck on History
- The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
- Alfred A. Montapert on History
- The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
- Woodrow Wilson on History
- The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
- Harry S. Truman on History
- The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- George Washington on History
- The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
- Bertrand Russell on History
- The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
- Jonathan Sacks on History
- The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
- Jon Meacham on History
- The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
- King Abdullah II on History
- The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
- Nikita Khrushchev on History
- The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
- Arthur Henderson on History
- The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on History
- The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
- Ralph Nader on History
- The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton on History
- The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
- Ho Chi Minh on History
- The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
- Tom Osborne on History
- The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
- David Herbert Lawrence on History
- The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
- Noam Chomsky on History
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