History Quotes - Page 19

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.

Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted the ravages of time and barbarism! And yet even the majestic ruins that are still scattered over Italy and the provinces, would be sufficient to prove that those countries were once the seat of a polite and powerful empire.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.