History Quotes

"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past" "America is an idea, an idea that has been tested and refined for more than two centuries but remains durable and strong" "Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible" "One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations." "We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor eternal, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine" "The power of humans depends on the power of our stories" "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." "History is written by the people" "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." "This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning." "History is the memory of states" "Revolutions are the locomotives of history" "Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past" "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" "I'm the most brutal and ruthless conqueror that ever lived" "Religion is the opium of the masses." "I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it." "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman" "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them"