Quotes About History

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

And he did it. Dammit, he couldn't stop himself. His eyes traveled up to the bronze sea hag, the source of hundreds of years of ridiculousness.

At their sewing bee, the girls made a reticule, a small nineteenth-century version of a purse. Krista was glad. "I'm getting a cold," she said. "I can put Kleenex in it." "They didn't have Kleenex back then," said Holly. "That's why I'm hiding it in the bag," Krista replied.