Quotes About History

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.