Quotes About History

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts, which every nation gives of its origin.

Empires may rise and fall; liberty and slavery succeed alternately; ignorance and knowledge give place to each other; but the cherry-tree will still remain in the woods of Greece, Spain, and Italy, and will never be affected by the revolutions of human society.

with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds or trace their history from eternity to eternity?

There is a great difference between historical facts and speculative opinions ; nor is the knowledge of the one propagated in the same manner with that of the other

obtruded on us by the Scottish historians.      [* Chron. Sax. p. 19.]      [** W. Malms, p. 19.]

The pope, aware that he had already angered Mussolini with his three telegrams, would do no more.

He made not even the briefest mention, indeed no mention at all, of the Nazis' extermination of Europe's Jews.

the Vatican's cooperation.

the moral leadership of the Papacy is conditioned by considerations of opportunism and expedience.

No such criticism of the racial laws would ever escape the pope's lips or pen, not in 1939, nor over the following years in which they were in force.

the National Socialists were divided into pro-church and anti-church factions that were "bitterly opposed to each other.

The story of the earlier decades remains unknown and largely unexamined.

Because the humiliations and the punishments inflicted on the Germans this time will be even worse than those that followed Versailles;

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

Most people would deny such a world (ancient highly advanced civilizations in the remote past) ever existed because it would be so at odds with their daily experience. We would have the same we-can't-do-it-so-it-can't-be-done mentality...

Hiding what really happened in the past is essential for the manipulators if they are to hide what is happening now.

The Sumerian tablets speak of E.DIN (The Abode of the Righteous Ones).

About 35,000 years ago came another sudden upgrade and the emergence of homo sapiens sapiens, the physical form we see today. The Sumerian Tablets name the two people involved in the creation of the slave race. They were the chief scientist called Enki, Lord of the Earth (Ki=Earth) and Ninkharsag, also known as Ninti (Lady Life) because of her expertise in medicine. She was later referred to as Mammi, from which comes mama and mother. Ninkharsag

It is important to appreciate, as we look at where present-day values and beliefs originated, that nothing is new. It is all inherited from, or influenced by, what has happened in the past.

We are the sum of our choices and decisions, chances and accidents. Our personal history is built up in layers that contain our history as surely as sediments of rock contain the history of our planet.

First Germany must 'create a powerful land force,' so that foreigners took her seriously. Then, he wrote in 1928, there must be an alliance with Britain and her empire, so that 'together we may dictate the rest of world history.

After showing them the blast furnaces, rolling mills and armour-plate works, Hitler and Ribbentrop took Mussolini alone into a hall where Krupp engineers took the tarpaulins off Hitler's proudest possession – a gun barrel so huge that it had to be transported on two parallel railroad tracks. Mussolini stroked it and congratulated the Führer, clearly astonished at the weapon's size.

this minority will be the one that makes history, because the majority will always follow where there's a tough minority to lead the way. In