Historical Quotes
Historical Quote of the day
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country
Coconut oil has been described as the “World's Healthiest Dietary Oil”. There is a mountain of historical evidence and medical research to verify this fact
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
