History Quotes

"History teaches us that things that have lasted long without intervention have a reason" "Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens" "You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history" "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within" "Look back over the past with its changing empires and you can foresee the future too." "Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies" "A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors the men it remembers" "I've known rivers: ancient, dusky rivers" "The most important thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history " "But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" "The greatest genuine reformers of the past, if brought back to this world today, would tremble lest their labors have irretrievably deserved confusion. " "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." "As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history." "The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar" "A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean." "We do not retain the precious past, no matter" "Human beings have always been fascinated by the concept of time." "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce"