History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight D. Eisenhower on history
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson on history
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. Robert A. Heinlein on history
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. Thomas Merton on history
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. Franklin D. Roosevelt on history
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. Karl Marx on history
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. Dwight D. Eisenhower on history
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley on history
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. P. J. O'Rourke on history
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats on history
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. Henry Ward Beecher on history
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf on history
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. Carter G. Woodson on history
The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong. Mitt Romney on history
I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register. Mike Tyson on history
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. Aldous Huxley on history
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. Aldous Huxley on history
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them. Norodom Sihanouk on history
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. Pope John Paul II on history
Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. Hillary Clinton on history