Quotes About History

The shot heard round the world.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

World War II was a must win.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

Slavery can never be abolished.

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)