Quotes About History

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains.

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Laws die, books never.

News is the first rough draft of history.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

Scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered for.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

There is nothing new under the sun.

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

Geography is about maps, But biography is about chaps.