Quotes About History

Always remember that, when all's said and done, what does most to accelerate the evolution of the art of war is wars themselves. In

always wrapped in the mystery of the Merovingian age,

There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history.

Al final, Ana, nuestra tarea, la de nosotras mujeres, es dar a luz y cerrar los ojos de los muertos. Exactamente los dos pasos claves de la humanidad. Como si la historia realmente dependiese de nuestras manos.

Mucho de lo suyo pudo desmoronarse, menos las cosas que le dieron identidad.

La historia se ha escrito al margen de nosotras, pero nosotras mismas la hemos moldeado desde atrás.

The cooking of Italy is really the cooking of regions that long antedate the Italian nation, regions that until 1861 were part of sovereign and usually hostile states, sharing few cultural traditions and no common spoken language

Just as all politics is local, all good history is personal.

But of one thing I was certain. I couldn't undo four hundred years of social injustice with a pretty dress and a soft voice.

who, during the months since the criminal verdict, have rewritten history.

parents were dead. We hadn't found his birth parents yet. He hadn't gone to college, his high school records were archived somewhere—we had unis working on it—and his elementary school

Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events that go before are soon covered by those that come after.

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

Black men, you were once great; you will be great again. Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

The world today is indebted to us for the benefits of civilization. They stole our arts and sciences from Africa. Then why should we be ashamed of ourselves?

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.

the Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.

His favorite book was Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire,