History Quotes

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Black history is American history.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

History is a vast early warning system.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

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.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.