History Sayings & Quotes

History Sayings & Quotes

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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused. - Edmund Burke


When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall, think of it, always. - Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi


The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union, whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes, winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry. - Glenn L. Archer


The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. [The Recovery of Freedom ] - Paul Johnson


The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain


Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1. Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2. Advising the President. 3. Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. - David Letterman


Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. - Robert A. Heinlein


It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people. - Felix Frankfurter


Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. - Robert F. Kennedy


We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the centre of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary. - Alexander Maclaren


Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. - Elizabeth Janeway


Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide. - Leo Burnett


Washington loves the ones who grease its gears. But history only remembers the ones who shift them. - Marjorie Williams


Human history in essence is the history of ideas. - H. G. Wells


If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling