Quotes About History

This war is not about slavery.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

We all thought Richmond, protected as it was by our splendid fortifications and defended by our army of veterans, could not be taken. Yet Grant turned his face to our Capital, and never turned it away until we had surrendered. Now, I have carefully searched the military records of both ancient and modern history, and have never found Grant's superior as a general. I doubt that his superior can be found in all history.

Also instructive for anyone – Jew or non-Jews – looking to succeed in the modern world is the entire saga of Jewish history that has been discussed throughout this book. It shows how perseverance in the face of adversity can pay off in the long term.

Most important for our purposes here is that the [Jewish] obsession with learning and cultivating the intellect had no precise parallel in Christian Europe in the early medieval period.

The Protestants were not much better than the Catholics in their treatment of dissenters.

As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but open to transcendence and ultimately to God. This concept of the person, he believed, was denied as much by an atheistic totalitarianism of the Left as by the bourgeois materialism of capitalist society. To the extent that Christianity had become infected by the bourgeois spirit, it had become a prop in what he called, 'the established disorder.

Mournier defined his own position as one of 'tragic optimism--' a Christian attitude of absolute engagement in the struggles of history, despite the fact that the Absolute cannot be contained in history.

Let no man write my epitaph…. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

when my Country takes her place among the nations of the Earth , then and not 'till then shall my epitaph be written Robert Emmet

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Homer was thus at once contemporary in content and antique in form." - Bernard Knox

It turns out that what makes history come out in triumph is some dumb sheep that couldn't find its way home.

And the sad fact is that the church, both now and at far too many times in its history, has found it easier to act as if it were selling the sugar of moral and spiritual achievement rather than the salt ofJesus' passion and death.

The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.

Les prétendues chambres à gaz hitlériennes et le prétendu génocide des Juifs forment un seul et même mensonge historique qui a permis une gigantesque escroquerie politico-financière, dont les principaux bénéficiaires sont l'État d'Israël et le sionisme international, et dont les principales victimes sont le peuple allemand — mais non pas ses dirigeants et le peuple palestinien tout entier.

Il est faux que, comme on a longtemps osé le prétendre, il ait existé un ordre quelconque de Hitler ou de l'un de ses proches d'exterminer les juifs. Pendant la guerre, des soldats et des officiers allemands ont été condamnés par leurs propres cours martiales, et parfois fusillés, pour avoir tué des juifs.

The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews form one and the same historical lie, which has permitted a gigantic political and financial swindle whose main beneficiaries are the state of Israel and international Zionism and whose main victims are the German people – but not their leaders – and the Palestinian people in their entirety.

Kill the heroes and you kill the soul of a nation.

Akçam citó incluso a Mustafá Kemal Ataturk, el fundador del Estado turco, quien el 23 de abril de 1920 denunció las «matanzas armenias» en tanto que «acto vergonzoso».

Ibíd., p. 59, el texto completo de la carta de hach Amin a Hitler, 20 enero 1941, se encuentra en el Apéndice B (pp. 202-5) del libro de Elpeleg.

Ahora bien, visto de modo retrospectivo, esa retirada —en una época en que los Estados Unidos no habían tomado un partido en Oriente Próximo— fue una de las grandes tragedias de nuestro tiempo. Los europeos nos apoderamos de la zona. Y fracasamos. Cuando los Estados Unidos volvieron a entrar en la región un cuarto de siglo más tarde, lo hicieron por el petróleo y, poco después, como partidarios casi incondicionales y financiadores de Israel.