History Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

~ Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events ... it is from numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. ~

Robert F Kennedy 1925

~ The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. ~

Winston Churchill

~ Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ~

Edward R. Murrow

~ The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. ~

Sonia Johnson

~ History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. ~

Etienne Gilson

~ History is the self-consciousness of humanity. ~

Droyson

~ History is written by the victors. ~

Winston Churchill

~ History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ~

David C. McCullough

~ Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ~

Haile Selassie

~ The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. ~

Robert Heinlein

~ The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice-their choice ~

Dwight David Eisenhower

~ It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut ~

Walter Parker Stacy

~ History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ~

Maya Angelou

~ History is Philosophy teaching by examples. ~

Thucydides

~ The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. ~

Meridel Le Sueur

~ The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments ~

William Edgar Borah

~ What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it ~

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

~ The history of the world is the world's court of justice. ~

Friedrich Von Schiller

~ Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~

HonorÈ de Balzac

~ History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. ~

Dwight D. Eisenhower

~ Journalism is the first rough draft of history. ~

Unknown

~ I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ 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. ~