Quotes About History

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Men make their own history

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.