History

It is history that teaches us to hope. – Robert E. Lee

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.  – Thomas Jefferson

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.  – D. D. Eisenhower.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.  We... will be remembered in spite of ourselves.  – Abraham Lincoln.

We are always telling ‘em [young people] what we used to not do.  We didn’t do it because we didn’t think of it.  We did everything we could think of.  – Will Rogers

History is a story written by the finger of God. – C.S. Lewis

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.  – Henry Kissinger

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.  – Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Men make history and not the other way around.  – Harry S. Truman

It takes great courage to break with one’s past history and stand alone.  – Marion Woodman

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.  – Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times.  – David McCulloch

Thanks to modern technology. . . History now comes with a fast-forward button.  – Gore Vidal

For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.  – Albert Einstein

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.  – Otto von Bismarck

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.  – R. H. Tawney

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.  – Sioux Saying

History is a distillation of rumor.  – Thomas Carlylse

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World.  History is like that, very chancy.  – Samuel Eliot Morison

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side.  We will bury you. – Nikita Khrushchev

Human history is in essence a history of ideas. – H.G. Wells