History Quotes - random
To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
We have sewn the sea — Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and me: the three great fools of history...
Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself.
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
History is at once freedom and necessity.
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
When history moves - really moves - it does so in great convulsive jolts.
Forgiveness rewrites our history! p.54
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
The problem here is not so much a historical one, more a terminological and philosophical one.
In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
It is a considerable fact in the history of the world, that he was for four years King of England.
The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history.
Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.