Quotes About History

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.

The past is the tomorrow that got away.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

The past is our very being.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.

Reappraise the past, reevaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed.

Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

Don't let it be forgot, That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

War is the national industry of Prussia.

We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. We've fought the Bear before and while we're Britons true, The Russians shall not have Constantinople.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.