History Quotes

Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher Columbus 

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. Mencken

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel

History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
Arnold J. Toynbee

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon

History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford

History is the sum total things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer