Historical Quotes - Page 3

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

Coconut oil has been described as the “World's Healthiest Dietary Oil”. There is a mountain of historical evidence and medical research to verify this fact

The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.