Quotes About History

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.