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History Quotes
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."
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"Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?"
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"The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition."
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"Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain."
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"Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone."
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"This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'"
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"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."
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"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
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"Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being all that is left faithful of the ship's company--with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin boy--'And at the same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate."
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"Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it."
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"If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences."
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"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."
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"The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally."
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"There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes."
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"That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain."
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"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."
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"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding."
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"The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it."
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"History is the story of events, with praise or blame."
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"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America."
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"Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history."
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"The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy."
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"Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history."
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"When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period."
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"The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves."
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"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
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"More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close."
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"Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days."
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"Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it."
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"This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old."
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"I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying."
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"While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan."
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