Quotes About History

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.

I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.