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

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler Yeats

Courage, Battle, May

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

Through, Living, Looks

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

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Dick Gregory

Great, Victory, Against

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis

Done, Before, Impossible

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

Education, Human, Between

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

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

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

Weird, Sensitive, Impact

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

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

World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will

War, Government, Last

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

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

Movement, Condition, Harbor

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

Freedom, Find, Liberty

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Halsey

Men, Deal, Ordinary

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

Strength, Against, Knows

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

Fear, Feared, Russians

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