Quotes About History

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

It is history that teaches us to hope.

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

History teaches us hope.

Finally, in 1954 [Ho Chi Minh] agreed to the Geneva Agreement, which divided the country temporarily into two zones, in the hope that national elections might unify the country under his leadership.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow, hope lies in dreams in imagination

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.