Quotes about History

“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”

“What Britain needs is an iron lady.”

“The Fourth of July observes one of the most seismic shifts in human history.”

“Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.”

“Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.”

“There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions.”

“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”

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

“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”

“History is Philosophy teaching by example.”

“Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.”

“History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.”

“Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.”

“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”

“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”

“There's nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time.”

“Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.”

“It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.”

“As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.”

“I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.”

“Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.”