History Quotes - Page 62

We might have been a free and great people together.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

History is the distillation of rumour.

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

History is the new poetry.

History after all is the true poetry.

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

Black History Month should be celebrated everyday. It's a month that's kind of sad to me, because I am reminded of the struggles that people before us had to go through for us to be able to live comfortably today.