Us History Quotes
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.
The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)
I pray every single moment of my life not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.
As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Leonard Da Vinci
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.
Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he’s shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the test.
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.
There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.
Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
The student is to read history actively not passively.
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You've got to become them."(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.
Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.
...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king.
Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.
shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.
If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.
I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.
The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.
History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.
To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.