History Quotes - page 4

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. (Thomas Jefferson)
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
Auguste Comte
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
The Fourth Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
Potter Stewart
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
William O. Douglas
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
Felix Frankfurter
History, a distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
James Frazer
Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.
Gunnar Myrdal
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. (George F. Kennan)
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.
Robert Aumann
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.
Alfred Kinsey
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
Walter Raleigh
The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. (George Bernard Shaw)
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
James Hutton
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Livy
No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson