Top 50 History Quotes Share – Quotes About History

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. -William James

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. -Albert Schweitzer

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. -Milton Friedman

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. -Walt Whitman

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. -Benjamin Disraeli

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. -Karl Marx

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice. -Tim Pawlenty

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’ -William F. Buckley, Jr.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us. -George W. Bush

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. -William Hazlitt

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. -Eric Hoffer

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. -James A. Baldwin

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. -Benjamin Disraeli

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. -Temple Grandin

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. -Dave Barry

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another. -Richard M. Nixon

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. -James A. Baldwin

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. -Rudyard Kipling

(History Quotes)You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. -G eorge Eliot

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world. -Rush Limbaugh

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. -Lord Acton

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. -Dwight D. Eisenhower