Quotes About History

Biography is the only true history.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Old houses mended

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

The father of confederation is deadlock.

There has never been a war of Canadian origin, nor for a Canadian cause.

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

Sir John A. Macdonald

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

When the white man came, we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping, but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.

Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing.