History Quotes

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

Never ever waver. Be on record. Don’t be on the wrong side of history.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.