Quotes about History

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.