History Quotes

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. Kennedy

God, Together, Made

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand

Government, Human, May

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

Courage, Pain, Cannot

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

Thought, Find, Become

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi

Whole, Nation, Act

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama

Change, Government, Past

History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill

Written, Victors

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Him, Cannot

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

Past, Write, Leave

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai Lama

Long, Rich, Culture

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Bad, General

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, Time, God

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Faith, Education, Government

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx

Great, Sex, Impossible

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

Government, Women, Men

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Long, Few

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

Learning, Experience, Unexpected

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx

Second, Tragedy, Farce

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis

Time, Women, Men

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Die, Point

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Love, Dreams, Hope

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan

War, Price, Begins

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy

Power, Best, Last

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama

Hope, Life, Courage

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