History quotes

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

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.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

Ideas shape the course of history.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.