Quotes About History

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima…. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

I had faith in Israel before it was established; I have faith in it now.

I'll come back to George Washington just long enough to say goodbye to him. He was a great man and a good man, and when his work was over as our great first president, he went back home to Virginia for his long-earned rest. Just three years later, on December 14, 1799, at the age of sixty-seven, he went to his final rest. As

The next generation never learns anything from the previous one until it's brought home with a hammer. I've wondered why the next generation can't profit from the generation before but they never do until they get knocked in the head by experience.

Harry Turtledove

he spoke a word of pure German: "Vernichtungslager." Extermination camp.

Bealeton. Another sleepy hamlet was about to have its name written down in history in letters of blood.

the Romans, spring and early

Damp tonnage and alluvial march of days…Tortured with history, its one will—flow!

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

Camera and event. Since its invention, film has seemed destined to make history visible. It has been able to portray the past and stage the present. We have seen Napoleon on horseback and Lenin on the train. Film was possible because there was history. Almost imperceptibly, like moving forward on a Moebius strip, the side was flipped. We look on and have to think: if film is possible, then history too is possible.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.