History Quotes

I’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

There’s a long history of all kinds of cop films… But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.