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History Quotes

"The day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas."

"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction."

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within"

"Biographies are our unique obsession"

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible"

"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."

"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."

"Any meaningful understanding of our world must account for the processes of change over time."

"People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes"

"112"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of the past centuries"

"The lesson of our history is that I, too, am America."

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience"

"In the last few decades we have managed to rein in famine, plague, and war"

"History is almost always written by the victors"

"History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging."

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