Quotes About History

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

I'm a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,' she said. 'Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.