Us History Quotes

Ignoring the evils of our history will only cause them to reoccur.

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’.

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart.

There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot.

The greatest innovators and history makers of our world were not great because of the formal school system but because of self-development through the proper investment and conversation of time.

Human nature in time is engraved in history.

You can leave your mark in the sand of history just by discovering the secrets of greatness through time conversion.

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.

The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Federalists. But the heirs of Washington would be all Americans.

I'd rather have a heart of goldThan all the treasure of the world.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

History doesn't remember gardens.…You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history.

Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.

Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.

Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.

Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows us to disengage emotionally from the truth.

The best way to make the true history a lasting legacy is to make it a lasting subject of learning

The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.

The history of man is a must read poetry.

Numerous times throughout history, a single person has made a tremendous impact on the world. I don’t know why anyone would think that can’t still happen.

The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.

But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba has failed to promote democracy" Barack Obama, 44th and current President of the USA. "Let's move ahead!" Captain Hank Bracker

Before Lind's experiments, scurvy was not clearly defined as a disease.The term was used as a catchphrase to include all manner of nautical ailments.

Japan surprised almost everyone but Marty with their attack on Pearl Harbor,

Stupid Wars are easy to start but hard to end.

The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.

Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.

When my grandchildren ask me what I did in the '42 movement [Quit India Movement] I say - "I waited for it.

In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.

[V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history.

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy.

I believe history is a circle, made by men who don't learn from their mistakes.

It is not the business of a Queen to be human.

History of humanity is nothing but a history of loyalty!

I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.

The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of knowledge and how one is deeply implicated in the other.

Vindication is the privilege of the victorious

History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.