History Quotes

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history.

With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation’s historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.