History Quotes

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

History is just new people making old mistakes.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

History is written by the winners.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia, also in the future.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.