Us History Quotes

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

Whoever won the war, would revise the history.

When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out.

* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

The king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.

When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.

...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

You shall not hear their mirth:You shall not come to think them well contentBy any jest of mine. These men are worthYour tears:You are not worth their merriment.

All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

The wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.

Bad ages to live through are good ages to learn from.

All is changed, changed utterlyA terrible beauty is born

What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?

Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.

War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything?

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.

As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in the long run not by the sword but by the axe.

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.

It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss.

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War does one good—it teaches people geography.

Sometimes, Freud argued, people need a history enema.

The validation of your dreams is not in the colour of your skin but in the quality of your heart.

The streets of America may not have been paved with gold, but they were cobbled in middle-class dreams.

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How is it called freedom if it is limited by those with a history of oppressing you?

He had understood long ago that the past was no better than the present. That was as plain as day. One had to try to escape, to wrestle free from every era, so as not to be devoured by it.

Slavery all day, and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!

What i know from history is this: Those who do not appreciate their freedom and aren't prepared to protect it, will lose it.

History is nothing new.

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

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 cent

I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it.

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]

Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless.

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.