Top History Quotes

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

History Definition

(n.) A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.

(n.) A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.

(v. t.) To narrate or record.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in t...

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncer...

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.]

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

It is but another instance of injustice, Fray Felipe said. For twenty years we, of the missions, have been subjected to it, and it grows. The sainted Junipero Serra invaded this land when other men fe...

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said `no.' I did not think that I had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end o...

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true...

We invoke the words of Jefferson and Lincoln because they say something about our legacy and our traditions. We do this because we recognize our links to the past--at least when they flatter us. But b...

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.