History Quotes

"The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes" "The one charm of the past is that it is the past" "The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate." "History is the result of a cognitive revolution, not just progression" "In the last few decades we have managed to rein in famine, plague, and war" "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground" "The footfalls of the centuries echo through my being" "History teaches us, however, that when the aspirations of a nation coincide with a progressive movement, this strengthens the nation and gives it a new breath of life" "Myths and legends die hard in America" "Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future." "The lesson of our history is that I, too, am America." "The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope" "There's never a new fashion but it's old" "Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?" "The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time immemorial." "There is no future without memory. " "Every epoch dreams its successor" "History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging." "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience." "The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow "