Quotes About History

No Jews now,' she chirruped, 'to waylay poor little lads and hang them up in cellars. It was a good day for England when they were packed off.

When a dog has slept in the same corner for so many years no one is likely to enquire into its pedigree.

Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time.

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

Nemyslím, že p?eháním, ?eknu-li, že naše historie je jedna z nejzajímav?jších – jsme chlapíci, ale ?asto šlápneme vedle.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.

Throughout history there has been no single instance where a people, once become Moslem, has ever abandoned the faith.

a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.

The heart of the white world was divided against itself, and on the fateful 1st of August, 1914, the white race, forgetting ties of blood and culture, heedless of the growing pressure of the colored world without, locked in a battle to the death.

Published April, 1920

Great War was from the first the White Civil War,

Jenghiz Khan and his lieutenants slaughtered more than 18,500,000 human beings.

The cities of Russia and Poland were burned, their inhabitants tortured and massacred, with the consequence that progress was retarded for centuries. Almost

Arab expansions under the impulse of the Mohammedan religion finally tore away all the eastern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, while from an Arabized Spain they threatened western Europe. With the White Man's world thus rapidly receding in the south, a series of pure Mongol invasions from central Asia, sweeping north of the Caspian and Black Seas, burst upon central Europe.

Russia's collapse into Bolshevist anarchy, however, presently opened up new vistas.

Europe drills the Moslem to be a soldier who will ultimately turn his weapons against her;

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think nowHistory has many cunning passages, contrived corridorsAnd issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,Guides us by vanities.

Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.

IT IS AS IF WE ALL CARRY in our makeup the effects of accidents that have befallen our ancestors," writes V. S. Naipaul,

When Ulysses S. Grant took the presidential oath of office on March 4, 1869, the nation that emerged out of the Civil War approached maturity—or what we might call its first maturity. All that was "appointed from of old" seemed to disappear.

It's one of the finest highway networks in the world—and nobody seems to care that the basic idea was copied from the Nazis.6     EISENHOWER

All order has genocide hidden in its belly. Give it nine months and it will give birth, under clement conditions of course, to a holocaust.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.