Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

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

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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

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

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

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

Time is my greatest enemy.

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

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

History is a vast early warning system.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

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

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.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

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

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

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

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

History develops, art stands still.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

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

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

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.

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

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

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.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

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.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.