Quotes about History
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again
- Ronald Reagan
For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side.
- Ronald Reagan
The advance of freedom is the great story of our time
- George W. Bush
If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.
- Mark Batterson
The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory
- Mark Batterson
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown all began as Christian institutions
- Mark Clark
If you're going to make up stories about miracles and events that you are claiming really happened, you have to wait until all the eyewitnesses are dead and gone.
- Mark Clark
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
- Mark Twain
The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for six million dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it.
- Mark Twain
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.
- Mark Twain
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
- Mark Twain