Quotes About History

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

The most famous of them all was the overthrow of the island of Atlantis.

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The civilized East is immeasurably in advance of any savage tribes; the Greeks and Romans have improved upon the East; the Christian nations have been stricter in their views of the marriage relation than any of the ancients.

The rest of the Dialogue of Critias has been lost.

what Shakespeare was to the drama of England, Plato was to ancient philosophy

The Philebus appears to be one of the later writings of Plato

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

And the greatest phrase, I think, in the history of politics is on all of those red and white hats that I see out there: 'Make America Great Again'.

Another way of indicating the importance of immigration to America is to point out that every American who ever lived, with the exception of one group, was either an immigrant himself or a descendant of immigrants. The

Since 1607, when the first English settlers reached the New World, over 42 million people have migrated to the United States.

the South is the land of Washington, who made our Nation – of Jefferson, who shaped its direction – and of Robert E. Lee who, after gallant failure, urged those who had followed him in bravery to reunite America in purpose and courage." --President John F. Kennedy

Today, I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.

Se comprendere è impossibile, conoscere è necessario, perché ciò che è accaduto, può ritornare, le coscienze possono nuovamente essere sedotte e oscurate: anche le nostre.

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Distruggere l'uomo è difficile, quasi quanto crearlo: non è stato agevole, non è stato breve, ma ci siete riusciti, tedeschi. Eccoci docili sotto i vostri sguardi: da parte nostra nulla più avete a temere: non atti di rivolta, non parole di sfida, neppure uno sguardo giudice.

Het lijkt me overbodig hieraan toe te voegen dat geen enkel feit verzonnen is.

E ci dicese nell'animo, nuovo per noi, il dolore antico del popolo che non ha terra, il dolore senza speranza dell'esodo ogni secolo rinnovato.

But are they not themselves stories of a new Bible?

Oggi, questo vero oggi in cui io sto seduto a un tavolo e scrivo, io stesso non sono convinto che queste cose sono realmente accadute.

For living men, the units of time always have a value, which increases in ratio to the strength of the internal resources of the person living through them; but for us, hours, days, months spilled out sluggishly from the future into the past, always too slowly, a valueless and superfluous material, of which we sought to rid ourselves as soon as possible. ... For us, history had stopped.

If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again.

In the midst of the smoke and noise Dov shouted into his ear: Empty the gun now. Don't hold back. We're fighting for three lines in the history books.

Neither in us nor, more generally, in our generation, whether we were "Aryans" or Jews, had the idea that one should and could resist fascism yet made much headway