History Quotations

Aaron McGruder

It would be inaccurate to say that Huey's opinions...

Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to...

Abraham Lincoln

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds...

Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there...

Ambrose Bierce

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly...

Anwar Sadat

Russians can give you arms but only the United...

Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a...

Arnold J. Toynbee

History is a vision of God's creation on the...

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand...

Augustine Birrell

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which...

Augustine Birrell

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man...

Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they...

Augustine Birrell

That great dust-heap called...

A. Whitney Brown

The past actually happened but history is only what...

Barbara Tuchman

The fleet sailed to its war base in the...

Barry Goldwater

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him...

Benjamin Disraeli

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in...

Byron White

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not...

Calvin Coolidge

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever...

Charles de Gaulle

How can you be expected to govern a country...

Charles de Gaulle

I have tried to lift France out of the...

Charles de Gaulle

My dear and old country, here we are once...

Christopher Columbus

Following the light of the sun, we left the...

Colin Powell

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor...

Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its...

Dan Quayle

It's a very good historical book about...

Dan Quayle

People that are really very weird can get into...

David M. Shoup

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out...

Desmond Tutu

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you...

Dick Gregory

We used to root for the Indians against the...

Douglas MacArthur

Could I have but a line a century hence...

Douglas MacArthur

In my dreams I hear again the crash of...

Douglas MacArthur

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded...

Douglas MacArthur

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be...

Edward Gibbon

History is indeed little more than the register of...

Edward Kennedy

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident...

Edward R. Murrow

Difficulty is the excuse history never...

Edward R. Murrow

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at...

Elizabeth II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not...

I have one thing that counts, and that is...

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I...

There are some oligarchs that make me want to...

Time is my greatest...

When the rich think about the poor, they have...

Francois Mitterrand

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show...

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek...

George M. Humphrey

You can't set a hen in one morning and...

History is a pack of lies about events that...

Those who do not remember the past are condemned...

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of...

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the...

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate...

When you do the common things in life in...

The future has a way of arriving...

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as...

World War II was the last government program that...

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out...

It is the soothing thing about history that it...

Grover Cleveland

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor...

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught...

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his...

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds...

History is more or less...

It takes an endless amount of history to make...

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political...

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever...

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred...

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their...

Human history becomes more and more a race between...

Historian: an unsuccessful...

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of...

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever...

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of...

What is sad for women of my generation is...

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were...

The construction of Europe is an art. It is...

People are trapped in history and history is trapped...

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and...

They can shout down the head of the physics...

The past is really almost as much a work...

John Foster Dulles

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student...

John F. Kennedy

History is a relentless master. It has no present,...

John F. Kennedy

If we cannot now end our differences, at least...

John F. Kennedy

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the...

John F. Kennedy

We would like to live as we once lived,...

John F. Kennedy

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed...

John Quincy Adams

Posterity: you will never know how much it has...

John Quincy Adams

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus...

John W. Gardner

History never looks like history when you are living...

Joseph Stalin

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the...

Juan Antonio Samaranch

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together...

Julius Caesar

I came, I saw, I...

Kofi Annan

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling...

Konrad Adenauer

History is the sum total of things that could...

Louis D. Brandeis

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of...

Louis D. Brandeis

Most of the things worth doing in the world...

Lyndon B. Johnson

Being president is like being a jackass in a...

Lyndon B. Johnson

If one morning I walked on top of the...

Lyndon B. Johnson

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear...

Mao Tse-Tung

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously...

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greater the difficulty, the greater the...

Margaret Thatcher

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable...

Margaret Thatcher

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve...

Margaret Thatcher

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact...

Margaret Thatcher

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a...

Marge Piercy

Never doubt that you can change history. You already...

Mark Twain

The very ink with which history is written is...

Mohandas Gandhi

A small body of determined spirits fired by an...

Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is...

Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the version of past events that people...

Napoleon Bonaparte

What is history but a fable agreed...

Neil Armstrong

This is one small step for a man, one...

Nikita Khrushchev

The more bombers, the less room for doves of...

Norman Cousins

History is a vast early warning...

Oliver North

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have...

Omar Epps

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no,...

Patrick J. Kennedy

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon...

Peter Berger

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our...

Prince Charles

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but...

Richard M. Nixon

Because of what you have done the heavens have...

Richard M. Nixon

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong...

Richard M. Nixon

In the long term we can hope that religion...

Richard M. Nixon

It is necessary for me to establish a winner...

Richard M. Nixon

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if...

Ronald Reagan

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to...

Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, though historians...

Sam Waterston

I met a man in the DA's office that...

Sandra Day O'Connor

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of...

Tab Hunter

I think the reason a lot of guys joined...

Tacitus

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not...

Ted Koppel

History is a tool used by politicians to justify...

Theodore White

I saw Chungking for the first time more than...

Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than...

Tony Blair

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder...

Vladimir Lenin

It is impossible to predict the time and progress...

Wendell Berry

I come into the peace of wild things who...

William Butler Yeats

Why should we honour those that die upon the...

William Halsey

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that...

William James

The world we see that seems so insane is...

William Manchester

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur...

William Manchester

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder...

William O. Douglas

One who comes to the Court must come to...

William O. Douglas

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out...

Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend...

Woodrow Wilson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows...