Quotes about History

“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”

“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”

“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”

“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.”

“I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?”

“I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.”

“I'm focused on being the best, making history.”

“You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.”

“These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.”

“In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.”

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

“Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.”

“A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.”

“If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.”

“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”

“When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.”

“No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don't want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.”

“We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.”

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

“Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.”

“If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.”