History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men […]
History Quotes
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this – that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of […]
The idea of an imprisoning vastness is also played out in the history of exploration. In America, Lewis and Clark go out into the interior of America and find a beautiful, fertile land – a wonderful, if dangerous, world. Whereas in Australia, the poor old explorer goes out, finds nothing, and dies. No Mississippi, no […]
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world – or the last.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion – i.e. none to speak of.
