Quotes About History

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god's dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.