History Quotes

"I'm a make my name last, put it in the books" "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient." "The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history." "The lessons of the past have shown us that military adventures can lead to human tragedies on a vast scale." "History has shown there are no invincible armies. " "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience" "There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made." "All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed—only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle." "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." "Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." "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" "The future belongs to those who can reinterpret our past"