Quotes About History

The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious, the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

The grandeur that was Rome.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented, among other things, the crank, the horse collar, eyeglasses, the flying buttress, the stirrup, the windmill, the wheelbarrow, printing, firearms, paper, the canal lock, the compass, the rudder, the mechanical clock, the spinning wheel, and the treadle.

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500,000,000 years ago.

But where are the snows of yesteryear?

The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave, His soul goes marching on.

But that is another story.

And thereby hangs a tale.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

I've been here so long . . . when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick yet.