History Quotes

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." "The future belongs to those who can reinterpret our past" "Work hard, have fun, make history." "Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it" "For the dead and the living, we must bear witness" "What's past is prologue." "You are the result of the love of thousands" "To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty." "Looking back, it is not so surprising that humanity has remade itself so completely so quickly considering that it has always been an experimental animal" "History will judge societies and governments and their institutions not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and powerful but how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless" "Biographies are our unique obsession" "We don't lose the past; it lives in us" "People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes" "When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back" "America is a country of inventors and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men" "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience." "For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" "You will get the best prediction of the future from the realization that the predictive power of the past has never been good at making future predictions" "I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time" "The older the question, the older the answer"