Quotes for History

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

George Orwell

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

Earl Browder

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Arthur Koestler

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Muhammad Iqbal

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

John Dalberg-Acton

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.

John F. Kennedy

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

George Santayana

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Angela Carter

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Nicolaus Copernicus

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Winston Churchill

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

Freida Pinto

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

John Dalberg-Acton

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Margaret Thatcher