Quotes About History

Yesterday is History. History brings us to this present moment, but it doesn't shape who we are at this present moment. We can't let our History control us and who we wish to be. Our future is our choice, not History's.

The advancement of man is foretold only by his ability to remember past mistakes.

To build your own self-confidence it is important to focus on your priorities with commitment and dedication. Take it as inspiration of your past accomplishments and success. Doing so will constantly remind you that you have a history of success and are worthy of more.

Never forget your past, it's the foundation that built your existence and the secret to your future.

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

Only Napoleon did more than me. But I'm taller than him.

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

History is philosophy teaching by example.

I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a massacre.

No good Indian but a dead Indian

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup until the 17th, without gas, matches or electricity until the 20th

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.