History Quotes

The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

If you don’t own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.