History quotes

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

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

History is more or less bunk.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

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

I came, I saw, I conquered.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

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

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.