Top 50 History Quotes Share – Quotes About History

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. -Calvin Coolidge

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. -Samuel Butler

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. -Dick Gregory

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. -Edward R. Murrow

(Best History Quotes)The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. -Colin Powell

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. -Benjamin Disraeli

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it. -Lyndon B. Johnson

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -Napoleon Bonaparte

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s. -Harry S. Truman

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. -Barry Goldwater

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. -H. L. Mencken

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. -Alexis de Tocqueville

What is history but a fable agreed upon? -Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -Napoleon Bonaparte(History Quotes)

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. -H. L. Mencken

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’ -Lyndon B. Johnson

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. -M. Scott Peck

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. -Ambrose Bierce

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

World War II was the last government program that really worked. -George Will

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. -Edward Gibbon

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. -Grover Cleveland

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. -Gertrude Stein

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. -Tony Blair

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. -Edward R. Murrow

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. -Louis D. Brandeis

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. -Henry Adams

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. -Frank Herbert

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. -Arnold J. Toynbee

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. -Henry James

History is a vast early warning system. -Norman Cousins

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job. -Richard M. Nixon

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me. -Lyndon B. Johnson

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. -Dante Alighieri

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. -Vladimir Lenin

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. -Woodrow Wilson

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? -Jackie Kennedy

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. -Christopher Columbus

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. -Richard M. Nixon

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. -Dan Quayle

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. -Douglas MacArthur

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. -Henry A. Kissinger

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. -George W. Bush

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. -Richard M. Nixon

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future. -Joe Baca

History never looks like history when you are living through it. -John W. Gardner

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -H. G. Wells

The future has a way of arriving unannounced. -George Will

Time is my greatest enemy. -Evita Peron

History is a vision of God’s creation on the move. -Arnold J. Toynbee

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. -Nikita Khrushchev

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. -Marge Piercy