Top 50 History Quotes Share – Quotes About History

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. -Kofi Annan

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,… Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don’t want to do that and that’s their decision. -Ho Chi Minh

I haven’t, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order – not one. -Oliver North

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it. -Evita Peron

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That’s the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. -William O. Douglas

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. -Robert Fulghum

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.-Ronald Reagan

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. -John F. Kennedy

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. -Karl Marx

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. -C. S. Lewis

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. -Mahatma Gandhi

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. -George Washington

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it. -John F. Kennedy

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. -George Bernard Shaw

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. -Winston Churchill

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. -Dalai Lama

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. -Thomas Jefferson

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history. -Dalai Lama

History is written by the victors. -Winston Churchill

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -Thomas Jefferson

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. -Maya Angelou

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. -C. S. Lewis

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. -Mahatma Gandhi

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. -John F. Kennedy

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. -Ayn Rand

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. -Thomas Jefferson

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. -Marcus Garvey

The Supreme Court’s only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. -Irving R. Kaufman

You can’t set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. -George M. Humphrey

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. -David M. Shoup

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. -Carl Sagan

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. -Bertrand Russell

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. -Charles Darwin

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. -B. R. Ambedkar

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. -Moliere

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history. -Steve Jobs

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. -Margaret Thatcher

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. -Plato

Live out of your imagination, not your history. -Stephen Covey(Best History Quotes)

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. -Albert Camus

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. -Theodore Roosevelt

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -George Bernard Shaw

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. -Milton Friedman

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. -Thomas Sowell

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. -Harry S. Truman