History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
The world is historically mentally illiterate.
The loss of historical memory is restored in the very place where one has lost it.
It is a considerable fact in the history of the world, that he was for four years King of England.
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
history is like your social Security number. long, useless, but needed.
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
[I am persuaded by] the materialist conception of history.
[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.
The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.
What then is, generally speaking, the [[truth of history? A fable agreed upon.
Nostalgia's nice enough in little bitty doses, it puts personal peach fuzz on the hard ass of history.
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
"Peace through Strength," surely history's most exploded nostrum.
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
Patriotism ruins history.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.