History Quotes

History Quotes & Sayings

These history quotes and history sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. 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


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