History Quotes

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

History is a vast early warning system.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window …

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.