Quotes About History

History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passion, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cock-crow.

Without social history, economic history is barren and political history is unintelligible.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockrow.

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

England was a menace to Scotland because Scotland was, by its separate existence, a constant anxiety to England.

If anything in their history demonstrates that the Scots are remarkable, it is that in spite of being physically attached to England, they have survived as a people, with their own culture, laws, institutions, and, like the English, their own ideas.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

The Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

More ships sailed to Melbourne in 1852 than to any other port in the world.

The White Australia policy, drafted at the top of the boom, became the wrong answer to almost every problem the colonies confronted once growth ended, and then the wrong message to send the world when they finally formed a federation in 1901.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

We also like obsolete styles because the past is dead, and hence contains no surprises.

Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.