History - Ancient HistoryQuotes

History is a vast early warning system.

Never again shall this land experience oppression of one by another.

- Nelson Mandela

They died hard, those savage men... and I loved them.

- Douglas MacArthur

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

- H. L. Mencken

History is largely a history of inflation engineered by governments.

- F. A. Hayek

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders.

- James K. Polk

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

- John W. Gardner

The Columbia crew will remain bright stars lighting the way for explorers.

- Valentina Tereshkova

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature.

- Henry Kissinger

I cannot prevent the French from being French.

- Charles De Gaulle

If you are neutral in injustice, you choose the side of the oppressor.

- Desmond Tutu

Most things worth doing were declared impossible before they were done.

- Louis D. Brandeis

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

- Thomas Jefferson

History cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

- Maya Angelou

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

- James Baldwin

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations.

- George Washington

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Extraordinary circumstances make ordinary men extraordinary.

- William Halsey

I come into the peace of wild things... and am free.

- Wendell Berry

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

- Christopher Columbus

History is little more than the crimes and follies of mankind.

- Edward Gibbon

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

- Winston Churchill

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable.

- Margaret Thatcher

If I walked on water, the headline would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

- Lyndon B. Johnson