Quotes About History

If the numbers Henley was quoting were accurate, it would make Dean Corll the worst mass murderer in American history.

In a world where even the moon had been traveled, the floor of the Atlantic remained uncharted wilderness, its shipwrecks beacons for men compelled to look.

History was a crystal ball that told as much about the future as it did about the past.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

This is the greatest pirate story ever," Bowden said. "And no one knows about it.

Stories were heirlooms in these parts.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." Texas senator Lyndon Baines Johnson was

President Howard W. Hunter explained that "the gospel of Jesus Christ, which gospel we teach and the ordinances of which we perform, is a global faith with an all-embracing message. It is neither confined nor partial nor subject to history or fashion.

the implications of the amazing new fact of nature called nonlocality cannot be properly understood without some familiarity with the actual history of scientific thought.

While the morality of slavery alone might have eventually led to a showdown, it was America's sprawling growth that made the issue explosive.

Rome, on the other hand, lost—suffering on that one day more battle deaths than the United States during the entire course of the war in Vietnam, suffering more dead soldiers than any other army on any single day of combat in the entire course of Western military history.

it was in defeat more than victory that Polybius saw the essence of Rome's greatness. It

Tom Jr. was steeped in Free Soil politics and was now chief justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court.

That's the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.

better than Sherman.

MODERN SAUDI HISTORY IN FIVE EASY LESSONS If you did not go hungry in the reign of King Abdul Aziz, you would never go hungry. If you did not have fun in the reign of King Saud, you would never have fun. If you did not go to prison in the reign of King Faisal, you would never go to prison. If you did not make money in the reign of King Khaled, you would never make money. If you did not go bankrupt in the reign of King Fahd . . .

The roll call of ancestors," he wrote, "includes no figures of outstanding importance in history." Rather, he said, what his book did provide was "a record of men and women who lived active, useful lives, and who gave to their nation and their communities the best that was in them.

They had not forgotten.

Robert Leckie

I was born in Leningrad, but I came here from Saint Petersburg. Physically, the two occupy the same space. Emotionally, they are light years apart.

Seen through the eyes of Arab alchemists, or Persian mystics, the earliest Greek philosophers weren't just thinkers or rationalists. They were links in an initiatory succession

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

I doodle handlebarmoustaches on the last Russian Czar.