History Quotes - page 2

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. (Edward Gibbon)
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
Ronald David Laing
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.
Robert F. Kennedy
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow Wilson
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley
The history of free men is never really written by chance - but by choice. Their choice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books.
Thomas Carlyle
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Norman Mailer
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Alfred North Whitehead
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Benito Mussolini
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. (Erica Jong)
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James Baldwin
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Oscar Wilde