History Quotes - random
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
I’ve been plowing in the sea. Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and I — the three great mavericks of history.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.
Nature wronged her in making her a woman. But for her sex she could have surpassed all the heros of history.
All history is modern history.
Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.
Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.
Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!
In the whole history of the sea, there is little to equal the wonderful behavior of these humble players.
(Allegedly) Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
He who invokes history is always secure.
The dead will not rise to witness against him.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.