The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
History Quotes
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
The search for the truth for truth’s sake is the mark of the historian.
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
History moves in contradictory waves, not in straight lines.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The history of most countries has been that of majorities – mounted majorities, clad in iron, armed with death, treading down the ten-fold more numerous minorities.
History, by apprising (men) of the past, will enable them to judge of the future, it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations.
Our purpose is not to buy friends or hire allies. Our purpose is to defeat poverty… our goal is to again influence history instead of merely observing it.
