history Quotes

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

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

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.