Quotes About History

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

A Peace to End All Peace.

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.