History Quotes

Don’t be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

The 20th Century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard.

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

History is the landmark by which we are directed into the true course of life.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.