History - World HistoryQuotes

We came in peace for all mankind.

History is written with ink that is fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

The most important lesson of history is that men learn little from it.

- Aldous Huxley

It takes an endless amount of history to make a little tradition.

- Henry James

Americans love the sting of battle.

- George S. Patton

We came in peace for all mankind.

- Neil Armstrong

History is a gallery of pictures, few originals, many copies.

- Alexis De Tocqueville

Be as a tower firmly set; shakes not for any blast.

- Dante Alighieri

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote.

- A. Whitney Brown

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

- Edward R. Murrow

Pursue Watergate even if it leads to the president.

- Richard M. Nixon

The world we see is the result of a belief system not working.

- William James

I did not come to NASA to make history.

- Sally Ride

Civilization is a movement, not a condition.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

Always stay near me, for tomorrow blood will leave my body.

- Joan Of Arc

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

- Konrad Adenauer

Listening to Humphrey is like reading Playboy with your wife turning the pages.

- Barry Goldwater

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

- Marge Piercy

In the Confederate Army, courage alone judged an officer.

- Chesty Puller

The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

- Richard M. Nixon

When the cavalry won it was a victory, when Indians won it was a massacre.

- Dick Gregory

The soothing thing about history is that it repeats itself.

- Gertrude Stein

History develops, art stands still.

- E. M. Forster

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

- Luigi Pirandello

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

- Colin Powell