951 private quotes tagged history

“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” — John F. Kennedy

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“To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.” — Albert Camus

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“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato

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“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.” — Robert Frost

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“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.” — Winston Churchill

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“A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.” — George S. Patton

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“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.” — John F. Kennedy

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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.” — George S. Patton

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“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.” — George Eliot

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“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.” — Samuel Butler

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“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.” — Aristotle

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“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” — Aristotle

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“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.” — Karl Marx

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“History is more or less bunk.” — Henry Ford

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“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” — George Washington

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“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.” — John F. Kennedy

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