History Quotes

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James A. Baldwin

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana

Lies, Happened, Events

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus

Greater, Glory, Difficulty

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon

Change, Religion, Nature

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
Joe Baca

War, Future, Winning

History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner

Through, Living, Looks

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

Education, Human, Between

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger

Nature, End, Once

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. Bush

War, Country, Against

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Richard M. Nixon

Winner, Somebody, Necessary

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Richard M. Nixon

Wrong, Acting, Clearly

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle

Weird, Sensitive, Impact

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur

Peace, War, Honor

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time, Memories, Written

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy

Work, Women, Sad

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus

Sun, Old, Light

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Dante Alighieri

Top, Tower, Blast

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir Lenin

Time, Revolution, Impossible

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

Strength, Against, Knows

History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins

System, Early, Warning

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
Richard M. Nixon

Job, President, Innocent

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Fear, Feared, Russians

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert

Freedom, Find, Liberty

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Movement, Condition, Harbor

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James

Takes, Tradition, Endless

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