Quotes About History

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote - and I!

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, Ä°stanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.