1,003 Quotes Regarding History


I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Richard M. Nixon

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Dante Alighieri

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir Lenin

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
Richard M. Nixon

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein