History Quotes - Page 4

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.