History Quotes - Page 26

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

Not a stone but has its history.

We know that we are close to making history.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

While we read history we make history.

To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns.

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

History is the memory of things said and done.

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.

In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.