Quotes About History

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Shiloh isn't haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn't care.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.