Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Steyn

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

Patrick Henry

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Niall Ferguson

The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

Niall Ferguson

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

Noam Chomsky

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

John Ashbery

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

Joe Murray

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

P. J. O'Rourke

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

Mary McCarthy

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

Mark Twain

It's so damned humiliating.

Muhammad Iqbal

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

Oscar Wilde

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Michel de Montaigne

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

Michel de Montaigne

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

Mark Twain

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

Miguel de Unamuno

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

Omar N. Bradley

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time...

Marc Bloch

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Margaret Thatcher

We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

Margaret Thatcher

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

Leopold Von Ranke

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Leon Trotsky

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

Oscar Wilde

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

For the first time in the history of that program, Maine's number one project is ranked number one in the country.

For the first time in history, we're going to make voting fashionable,

Gloria Steinem

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

at an important moment in American history when our need to safeguard military secrets has never been more critical.

John Quincy Adams

What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?

Norman Cousins

History is a vast early warning system.