Top 50 History Quotes Share – Quotes About History

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. -Augustine Birrell

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. -Jessamyn West

I wouldn’t attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. -John Foster Dulles

Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. -James K. Polk

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. -David Horowitz

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. -A. Whitney Brown

Failure is impossible. -Susan B. Anthony

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. -Queen Elizabeth II

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. -Herbert Hoover

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. -Wendell Berry

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. -Herbert Hoover

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. -Tacitus

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. -Evita Peron

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. -Charles de Gaulle

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. -Louis D. Brandeis

It’s a very good historical book about history. -Dan Quayle

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. -Mao Zedong

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. -Sandra Day O’Connor

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. -Anwar Sadat

There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. -William Halsey

That great dust-heap called ‘history’. -Augustine Birrell

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. -William Manchester

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. -Irving R. Kaufman

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. -Juan Antonio Samaranch

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. -Byron White

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. -Francois Mitterrand

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. -Peter Berger

To people who remember JFK’s assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father’s coffin. -Michael Beschloss

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. -Lance Morrow

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. -G. Gordon Liddy

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. -Hugo Black

We learned the value of research in World War II. -Amar Bose

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. -Eddie Bernice Johnson

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. -Jacques Chirac

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. -Jacques Chirac

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. -James Stockdale

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. -Irving R. Kaufman

(History Quotes)Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it. -Prince Charles

Dad, I’m in some trouble. There’s been an accident and you’re going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. -Edward Kennedy

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. -James K. Polk

Libraries are not made, they grow. -Augustine Birrell

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. -William O. Douglas

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. -Wendell Phillips