History Quotes

History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins

System, Early, Warning

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

Takes, Tradition, Endless

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams

Life, Often, Order

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow

Excuse, Difficulty, Accepts

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
Anwar Sadat

Give, United, Solution

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon

Mankind, Indeed, Crimes

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Concern, Amendment, Core

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

Women, Men, Fear

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

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein

Repeat, Soothing

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

Honest, American, Honor

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer

Total, Sum, Avoided

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
Evita Peron

Rich, Poor, Ideas

It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle

Good, Book, Historical

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Zedong

Enemy, Him, Seriously

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Tony Blair

Evil, Friends, Here

Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony

Failure, Impossible

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle

Cannot, Her, She

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Herbert Hoover

Political, Honor, Party

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover

School, Him, After

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus

Good, Best, Evil

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover

Depression, Person, Him

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry

Peace, Time, Free

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown

Past, Someone, Down

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell

Friendship, Heart, Makes

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