history
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
3 quotes from Madame de Stael
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
18 more wisdom & wit from Washington Irving
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
7 quotes from Arnold J. Toynbee
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
3 other quotes from Edward R. Murrow
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
20 quotes from Anatole France
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
7 quotes from Arnold J. Toynbee
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
14 other quotes from Edward Gibbon
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
14 more sayings from Edward Gibbon
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
14 views from Clarence Darrow
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
70 other views from Thomas Jefferson
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
17 views from John Burroughs
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
18 wisdom & wit from Emile M. Cioran
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
14 quotes from Vladimir Lenin
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
10 other wisdom & wit from Henry James
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
10 other quotes from Henry James
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
11 more quotes from Nicolas Chamfort
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
70 other views from Thomas Jefferson
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
4 sayings from Dean Acheson
Sometimes - history needs a push.
14 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Lenin
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
14 thoughts from Vladimir Lenin
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
16 thoughts from Otto von Bismarck
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
5 quotes from Nikita Khrushchev
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
3 quotes from Edward R. Murrow
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
5 quotes from Nikita Khrushchev
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
4 quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst
All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
24 more views from James A. Baldwin
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
21 thoughts from Karl Marx
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
21 more sayings from Malcolm X
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
46 other wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
21 sayings from Karl Marx
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
33 more quotes from Thomas Huxley
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
24 sayings from James A. Baldwin
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
46 thoughts from John F. Kennedy
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
30 more thoughts from Walt Whitman
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
53 wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
24 thoughts from James A. Baldwin
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
21 quotes from Karl Marx
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
9 quotes from Margaret Fuller
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
21 other thoughts from Karl Marx
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
14 thoughts from Golda Meir
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
21 sayings from Karl Marx
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
26 quotes from Harry S. Truman
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
4 other thoughts from Jose Ortega y Gasset
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
8 views from Joseph Brodsky
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
14 more views from Jean Anouilh
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
3 more quotes from Luigi Pirandello
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
15 wisdom & wit from Norman Cousins
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
10 sayings from John Maynard Keynes
History is a vast early warning system.
15 other quotes from Norman Cousins
Ideas shape the course of history.
10 sayings from John Maynard Keynes
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
6 more sayings from Jacques Yves Cousteau
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
14 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Hardy
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
15 wisdom & wit from Reinhold Niebuhr
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
47 thoughts from George Orwell
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
11 more quotes from Thomas Mann
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
28 thoughts from William Butler Yeats
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
45 more quotes from Aldous Huxley
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
8 quotes from Benito Mussolini
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
115 more wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
19 other thoughts from Alexis de Tocqueville
History is more or less bunk.
32 more wisdom & wit from Henry Ford
I came, I saw, I conquered.
12 wisdom & wit from Julius Caesar
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
17 more views from Calvin Coolidge
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
117 other wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
45 more views from Aldous Huxley
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
7 other thoughts from John Quincy Adams
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
2 quotes from Thurgood Marshall
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
45 views from Aldous Huxley
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
31 thoughts from Eric Hoffer
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
12 more thoughts from Franz Kafka
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
8 quotes from Benito Mussolini
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
27 other quotes from Dave Barry
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
13 thoughts from Dag Hammarskjold
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
10 other views from Hermann Hesse
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
32 quotes from Henry Ford
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
19 thoughts from Carl Jung
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
10 quotes from Hermann Hesse
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
10 thoughts from Arthur Ashe
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
12 other quotes from Bernard Baruch
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
7 sayings from Marcus Garvey
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
24 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
50 thoughts from Napoleon Bonaparte
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
9 other views from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
2 views from Eldridge Cleaver
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
19 quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
20 thoughts from Herbert Hoover
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
20 more wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
24 other quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
12 more sayings from Malcolm Forbes
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
2 sayings from C. Wright Mills
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
9 quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
24 more views from Lyndon B. Johnson
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
5 views from Charles Bukowski
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
World history is a court of judgment.
9 more wisdom & wit from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
6 wisdom & wit from Martin Heidegger
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
60 sayings from H. L. Mencken
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
26 more views from Theodor Adorno
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
19 quotes from H. G. Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
19 views from H. G. Wells
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
19 other thoughts from H. G. Wells
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
60 other sayings from H. L. Mencken
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
6 other quotes from Martin Heidegger
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
10 wisdom & wit from Ludwig von Mises
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
4 other thoughts from Arthur Henderson
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
8 more quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
100 more sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
33 sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
16 quotes from Paul Valery
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
29 quotes from Pablo Picasso
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
6 more wisdom & wit from Sarah Bernhardt
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
6 more quotes from William O. Douglas
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
8 quotes from Frank Herbert
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
6 more quotes from William O. Douglas
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
33 other views from Dwight D. Eisenhower
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
16 views from Paul Valery
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
33 other quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
4 views from Aleister Crowley
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
36 thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
33 other quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
6 quotes from Timothy Leary
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
6 views from Leigh Hunt
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
20 quotes from George S. Patton
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
20 quotes from George S. Patton
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
25 wisdom & wit from Will Durant
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
32 sayings from Martin Luther
History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
25 more thoughts from Will Durant
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
78 sayings from Voltaire
History is written by the victors.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
History should be written as philosophy.
78 sayings from Voltaire
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
74 more quotes from Winston Churchill
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
19 more quotes from Charles de Gaulle
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
2 quotes from Stefan Zweig
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
78 other wisdom & wit from Voltaire
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
4 more quotes from Auguste Rodin
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
7 views from Louis D. Brandeis
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
25 more sayings from Will Durant
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
3 other quotes from James K. Polk
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
52 other sayings from George Eliot
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
29 other sayings from Friedrich Schiller
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
9 other views from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.
12 more sayings from Gene Tierney
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
14 other views from Wendell Phillips
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
11 quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
52 other quotes from George Eliot
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
2 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Engels
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
2 more sayings from Alan Shepard
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
2 quotes from Eugene V. Debs
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
6 more views from Carter G. Woodson
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
75 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
75 more quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
12 more wisdom & wit from Mao Zedong
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
12 sayings from Mao Zedong
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
18 more sayings from Margaret Mead
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
68 other quotes from Samuel Butler
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
46 more quotes from George Santayana
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
3 quotes from Johan Huizinga
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
11 more wisdom & wit from Joseph Stalin
History, a distillation of rumour.
58 more quotes from Thomas Carlyle
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
12 quotes from Rudyard Kipling
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
19 thoughts from Woodrow Wilson
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
11 wisdom & wit from Rebecca West
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
30 more thoughts from Gustave Flaubert
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
2 quotes from David M. Shoup
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
5 more quotes from Anwar Sadat
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
18 thoughts from Margaret Mead
The history of art is the history of revivals.
68 sayings from Samuel Butler
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
19 more views from Woodrow Wilson
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
68 other quotes from Samuel Butler
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
19 thoughts from Woodrow Wilson
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
12 quotes from Mao Zedong
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
23 wisdom & wit from Henry Miller
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
19 thoughts from Woodrow Wilson
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
46 sayings from George Santayana
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
2 more sayings from Julien Benda
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
5 quotes from Jean Genet
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
67 sayings from Francis Bacon
Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
13 more sayings from Dante Alighieri
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
3 quotes from Edward Kennedy
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
5 more quotes from Christopher Columbus
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
30 thoughts from Virginia Woolf
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
3 sayings from Augustine Birrell
History develops, art stands still.
26 quotes from E. M. Forster
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
4 other wisdom & wit from Konrad Adenauer
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
9 thoughts from Barry Goldwater
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
12 quotes from Thomas Merton
Libraries are not made, they grow.
3 more quotes from Augustine Birrell
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
75 views from Aristotle
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
13 more views from Stephen Gardiner
That great dust-heap called 'history'.
3 other wisdom & wit from Augustine Birrell
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
2 wisdom & wit from William McKinley
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
4 more quotes from Barbara Tuchman
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
11 quotes from Epicurus
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
30 sayings from Virginia Woolf
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
40 sayings from William James
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
2 thoughts from Horatio Alger
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
2 other quotes from William Halsey
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
11 views from Douglas MacArthur
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
37 quotes from Edmund Burke
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
41 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.
World history is tragic.
17 other quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
7 other quotes from Walter Bagehot
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
2 other wisdom & wit from Ernest Renan
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
22 more views from Henry Adams
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
3 views from Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Failure is impossible.
14 more quotes from Susan B. Anthony
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
3 quotes from Nicolaus Copernicus
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
21 thoughts from W. H. Auden
History takes time. History makes memory.
31 more quotes from Gertrude Stein
I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
22 more quotes from Henry Adams
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
8 quotes from Charles Darwin
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
31 sayings from Gertrude Stein
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
30 more sayings from George Washington
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
30 quotes from George Washington
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
31 sayings from Gertrude Stein
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
73 more wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
9 quotes from Howard Nemerov
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
7 wisdom & wit from Lawrence Durrell
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
6 sayings from Grover Cleveland
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
2 quotes from Ralph Abernathy
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
6 quotes from William Morris
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
4 more thoughts from Rosa Luxemburg
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
5 quotes from William Jennings Bryan
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
2 more sayings from George M. Humphrey
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
3 sayings from Harold Wilson