Quotes About History

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Wars in history invariably become wars of history.

Fortunately, as Jews, we were never short of excuses for entertaining. Most Jewish holidays, an old joke goes, can be reduced to nine words: "They tried to kill us. We survived. Let's eat.

History is not just a flat chronicle of events. History is an understanding of the forces that work, the values that shape present action and direct the future. If you have that knowledge, you are empowered in ways that you can't get by watching the nightly news or reading the morning editorials. We live in an ahistorical age when many people's memories go back to breakfast, but if you're armed with that insight you have immense power for good.

Without the Merovingians, the Prieuré de Sion would not exist, and without the Prieuré de Sion, the Merovingian dynasty would be extinct.

Jesus is generally believed to have been born around 6 B.C. The Crucifixion occurred no later than A.D. 36, which would make Jesus, at most, forty-two years of age.

the myth of the secret society, if not the secret society itself, played a major role in nineteenth-century European history.

in March 1314, Jacques de Molay, the grand master, and Geoffroi de Charnay, preceptor of Normandy, were roasted to death over a slow fire.

the Ordre de Sion was founded by Godfroi de Bouillon in 1090

under the same cross that Christopher Columbus's three caravels crossed the Atlantic to the New World.

the Temple of Solomon was founded in 1118.

Rennes-le-Château and its environs had been on the ancient pilgrim route, which ran from northern Europe to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

The Templars were sworn to poverty, chastity, and obedience.

To drink like a Templar" became a cliché of the time.

René d'Anjou—"Good King René" as he was known—was one of the most important figures in European culture during the years immediately preceding the Renaissance.

In many ways, we are the city that the New Deal built. Because that's who built all of our infrastructure. Before that, we were a hardscrabble town.

neocolonization.

reeducating and "re-righting" history

I just met history for a couple of hours, and then our ways parted.

the Sinai Peninsula

For decades, large sections of the Zionist movement ignored the fact that there were Arabs living in Palestine.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.