History quotes
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
History has shown there are no invincible armies.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
History is the devil's scripture.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.