1,003 Quotes Regarding History


If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
David Horowitz

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
John Foster Dulles

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Nikita Khrushchev

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Marge Piercy

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will

Time is my greatest enemy.
Evita Peron

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
Arnold J. Toynbee

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
Tom Ford

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.
Victor Cousin

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Barbara Tuchman

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Evita Peron

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
William O. Douglas

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
Kofi Annan

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
Ho Chi Minh

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
Oliver North