Quotes about History

History would be far different if we did not tend to hear God most clearly when we think He is telling us exactly what it is we want to hear

We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."

History is riddled with blood and sin.

Frodo could not be a hero unless he was born into a story with many chapters already played out before his own. His moment derives its weight and urgency from the moments that have come before.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

In 1797 a member of Congress argued that, while a liberal immigration policy was fine when the country was new and unsettled, now that America had reached its maturity and was fully populated, immigration should stop—an argument which has been repeated at regular intervals throughout American history.

And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.