History Quotes - Page 20

Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Never say more than is necessary.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

Libraries are not made, they grow.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

What's shaking, chiefy baby?

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.