Famous Quotes

"Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

• "The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it."

• "The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant."

• "At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion."

• "Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."

• "Neutral men are the devil's allies."