Quotes About History

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

To study history is to study literature.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

History is merely gossip

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.