Quotes About History

Power is knowing your past.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.

My forefathers didn't come over on the May-flower, but they met the boat.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."