Quotes about History
Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
- Barack Obama
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.
- Billy Graham
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.
- George W. Bush
For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.
- Glenn Beck
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
- Mahatma Gandhi
...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.
- Malcolm X
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.
- Martin Luther
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
- Henry David Thoreau