Quotes about History
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.
- John F. Kennedy
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
- John Quincy Adams
The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
- Anonymous
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
- George Bernard Shaw
I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
- Albert Camus
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
- Samuel Johnson
Think of that — what little things change the world's history...
- Mark Twain
The God of freedom, the true God, is... not recognized by his power and glory in the history of the world, but through his helplessness and his death on the scandal of the cross of Jesus
- Jurgen Moltmann
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
- J. Gresham Machen