Quotes About History

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.