Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.
History Quotes
Blest is the Nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom.
It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
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.
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.
