Quotes About History

it. "You express surprise that I see my future in Canada. Let me tell you: I saw it the day I first crossed the border. I could vote there, you see, when I was still counted three fifths of a man here.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.

Science is uneasy with beginnings. Mythology is concerned above all with what happened "in the beginning". Its signature is "Once upon a time".

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it!

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Women and elephants never forget.

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.