Quotes About History

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

I like the course, the history - everything about St. Andrews.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

History is not hatred.

Each of us is born with a history already in place

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.

I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.