Quotes About History

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

A racist is a man who believes in history, genetics, and his eyes!

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.