History Quotes - Page 8

Most of our people have never had it so good.

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.