Quotes about History
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
- Oscar Wilde
This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.
- Harry S. Truman
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
- Aldous Huxley
It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
- Harry S. Truman
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
- Joseph Heller
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
- John Milton
When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.
- John Oliver
They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though
- Aldous Huxley
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
- Henry Ward Beecher
But it is the spot that the Lord of History says is His own personal real estate, and the very place where He will bring history to its conclusion.
- Terry James
We are the heirs of the ages
- Theodore Roosevelt