Quotes About History

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war." "Mussolini?" Leo frowned. "Wasn't he like BFFs with Hitler?

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.

If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

There's no war that will end all wars.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.