Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
History Quotes
500+ Sourced quotes
Source
Report...
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source
Report...
He's a terrible president, he'll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country, he's been a total disaster.
Donald Trump
Source
Report...
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
Elie Wiesel
Source
Report...
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
Umberto Eco
Source
Report...
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.
Leo Tolstoy
Source
Report...
Dramatical or representative poesy is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present.
Francis Bacon
Source
Report...
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
Oscar Wilde
Source
Report...
The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature's secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end.
Immanuel Kant
Source
Report...
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Source
Report...
Throughout our history the success of the homemaker has been but another name for the up-building of the nation.
Theodore Roosevelt
Source
Report...
Duke:
And what's her history?
Viola:
A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed On Her Damask Cheek:
she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations. It is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties.
Thomas Jefferson
Source
Report...
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
Joseph Stalin
Source
Report...
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source
Report...
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
Mahatma Gandhi
Source
Report...
We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilisation will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation.
Winston Churchill
Source
Report...
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
Thomas Jefferson
Source
Report...
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.
John F. Kennedy
Source
Report...
To be successful, insurrection must rely not upon conspiracy and not upon a party, but upon the advanced class. That is the first point. Insurrection must rely upon a revolutionary upsurge of the people. That is the second point. Insurrection must rely upon that turning-point in the history of the growing revolution when the activity of the advanced ranks of the people is at its height, and when the vacillations in the ranks of the enemy and in the ranks of the weak, half-hearted and irresolute friends of the revolution are strongest. That is the third point. And these three conditions for raising the question of insurrection distinguish Marxism from Blanquism.
Vladimir Lenin
Source
Report...
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source
Report...
I conclude by saying that each of us must keep faith in the future. Let us not despair. Let us realize that as we struggle for justice and freedom, we have cosmic companionship. This is the long faith of the Hebraic-Christian tradition: that God is not some Aristotelian Unmoved Mover who merely contemplates upon himself. He is not merely a self-knowing God, but an other-loving God forever working through history for the establishment of His kingdom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source
Report...
Jesus is eternally right. History is replete with the bleached bones of nations that refused to listen to him. May we in the twentieth century hear and follow his words-before it is too late. May we solemnly realize that we shall never be true sons of our heavenly Father until we love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source
Report...
NAFTA, signed by her husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world.
Donald Trump
Source
Report...
So those of us who believe in democracy, we need to speak out forcefully, because both the facts and history, I believe, are on our side. That doesn't mean democracies are without flaws. It does mean that the cure for what ails our democracies is greater engagement by our citizens — not less.
Barack Obama
Source
Report...
The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.
Mao Zedong
1
...
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Quote of the day
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes