Quotes for History

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Mao Zedong

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

Jacques Ellul

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

Nicola Sturgeon

With style, history repeats itself. But when it does, there's something different about it. I like the continuation of that.

Quincy Brown

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Harry S Truman

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Woodrow Wilson

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Kofi Annan

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

William F. Buckley, Jr.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Rudyard Kipling

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

Rudy Giuliani

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Ben Bernanke

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Alexander Smith

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Robert A. Heinlein

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Arthur Schopenhauer