History Quotes
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The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.
David Grann
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The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.
David Lloyd George
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I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.
Matt Barr
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The American free enterprise system is the greatest tool to lift people out of poverty ever created in human history and when applied properly, does not discriminate by race, religion, or skin color.
Markwayne Mullin
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Like every country, North Korea has some very smart people. They could be contributing a lot more to science and other areas, but North Koreans are forced to spend so much time memorising the fake history of our dictators and other propaganda, so are at a huge disadvantage.
Lee Hyeon-seo
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Turnberry is truly one of the most spectacular properties on earth. The views, the setting, and grandeur of the hotel - there's just nothing else like it. We've respected the architectural history of the hotel first and foremost, but most of all, we've respected the tradition of golf at Turnberry.
Eric Trump
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
Lara Giddings
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
Gail Carriger
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
Daniel Cormier
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We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
Fidel Castro
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The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.
Albert Einstein
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History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.
Donald Tusk
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
Kate Williams
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You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.
Johnny Rzeznik
Goo Goo Dolls
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I do see religions as a repository for human thought and culture. There's no connection with the time of Christ other than through Jews or the Christians of the Holy Land. And if one side erases the other side, we've destroyed history.
Nicholas Blincoe
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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
Jacques Barzun
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.
Martin Gardner
