History Quotes

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history

Abraham Lincoln

I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.

Rodney Dangerfield

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Conrad Black

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

Eliot Spitzer

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Carter G. Woodson

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?

Steve Maraboli

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

Jon Meacham

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

David Attenborough

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley

Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power. History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.

Christopher Hitchens

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

John Hodgman

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

Thomas Carlyle

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Ted Koppel

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

Nassim Taleb

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

Arthur Henderson

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

These, he said gravely, are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.

Aldous Huxley