Quotes About History

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

Now he belongs to the ages.

Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.

So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last night, when withdrawal began.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.