Quotes about History

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.

The Jewish nation, immediately on the death of Solomon, split into two parties, who chose separate kings, and who carried on most rancorous wars against each other.

The House of Commons did not originate as a matter of right in the people to delegate or elect, but as a grant or boon.

Monarchy and succession have laid (not this or that kingdom only) but the world in blood and ashes.

Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today's news isn't really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.

Step out of the history that is holding you back, Step into the new story you are willing to create.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.