Quotes about History
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
- Ayn Rand
The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.
- John Piper
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Aristotle
At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.
- Joseph Brodsky
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
- Stephen Colbert
Nations are born out of travail and suffering
- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
- Charles Dickens
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.
- John F. Kennedy
Precedents once established are so much positive power.
- James Madison
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- John F. Kennedy
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
- Will Rogers
you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way
- Will Rogers