Quotes about History
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
- Mark Twain
I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
- Mark Twain
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
- Winston Churchill
Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.
- John F. Kennedy
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
- Hans Kung
Future is everything that past has forgotten.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
- Frank Herbert
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
- Washington Irving
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
- Mahatma Gandhi
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
- Martin Luther
Blood alone moves the wheels of history
- Martin Luther