Quotes About History

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.

Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.