History Quotes

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

History develops, art stands still.

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.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

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

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Time is my greatest enemy.

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.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

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

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

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

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

History is a vast early warning system.