History Quotes

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"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."

"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."

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

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."

"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

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

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."

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

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

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world."

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

"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'"

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

"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."

"Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast."

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."

"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."

"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost."

"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

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

"Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!"

"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."