History Quotes
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment. Until then, America thought she was witnessing nothing more serious than the worst aviation disaster in history; now she had a sense of the fantastic vehemence ranged against her.
Martin Amis
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
Arthur Ashe
History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.
Will Ferguson
Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.
Jean Charest
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
Meridel Le Sueur
History, by appraising. ..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.
Thomas Jefferson
It is not "history" which uses men as a means of achieving -- as if it were an individual person -- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan
History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.
Senator John Kerry
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume
Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape, ...
Barack Obama
