History Quotes - Page 3

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

May the Force be with you.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

History is written by the winners.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.