Quotes About History

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

Those unuttered words of your smile can rewrite the history of this wonderful world.

When the weakness of human soul conflict with writer's word, It will create self History.

Memory has strange power keeps full data of the past.

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.

Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.

As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.