History Quotes
History Quote of the day
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.
Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.
This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals
Everything starts with one person... I don't care if you're 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world.
The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue...we have to understand this reality.
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.
So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.
Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.