Quotes About History

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

Whoever won the war, would revise the history.

In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars ...

War. War never changes.

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.

The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

The wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.

Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.

Everyone fights an American war.

What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?

History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.

War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything?

The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

Morality is decided by the victors

War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.

Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years.""I hope that's not true", I said.

Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.