History Quotes

When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.