History Quotes - Page 6

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody. His main ability by far, as he came to realise during the course of 1919, was that in the prevailing circumstances he could inspire an audience which shared his basic political feelings, by the way he spoke, by the force of his rhetoric, by the very power of his prejudice, by the conviction he conveyed that there was a way out of Germany's plight.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.