Quotes about History

“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.”

“Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?”

“The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.”

“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.”

“Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.”

“Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.”

“Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.”

“History is a vast early warning system.”

“Humans are pattern-seeking animals, consciously and subconsciously imposing designs and theories on to past events. We do this in both our private lives and when looking at history.”

“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”

“A chronicle is very different from history proper.”

“Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.”

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

“I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.”

“We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.”

“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”

“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”

“We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.”

“The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.”

“Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.”

“Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.”