Famous Quotes

"The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history."

Vladimir Putin 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 Vladimir Putin

• "We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole."

• "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior."

• "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior."

• "We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole."

• "The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history."