Quotes about History
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.
- John Adams
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.
- Leymah Gbowee
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
- Victor Hugo
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
- St. Augustine
History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.
- Albert Einstein
As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.
- Albert Einstein
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.
- Richard Baxter
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
- Dennis Prager