History Quotes

"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" "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" "We don't lose the past; it lives in us" "The past remains the past" "It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people." "Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." "In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger" "The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." "History is written by the people" "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." "The power of humans depends on the power of our stories" "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" "One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations." "Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible" "If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past"