History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
The world is historically mentally illiterate.
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
On the w:Festival of Britain, "We are consciously and deliberately determined to make history."
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — i.e., none to speak of.
No man in Senate history has wielded more influence with less oratory.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
This is the worst President ever. He is the worst President in all of American history.
But then history was made by fools.
The loss of historical memory is restored in the very place where one has lost it.
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.