Quotes About History

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

What man is, only history tells.

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.