Browsing Topic Best History Quotes

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

We can only know where we’re going if we know where we’ve been.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall… think of it, always.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

What’s past is prologue.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

The more I reflect on the endless parade of history, the more I am haunted by the futility and absurdity of all human affairs.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.

History is written by winners.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

History is a vast early warning system.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us. It’s an inseparable part of our shared history, our comrades and relatives.

History will judge the US and its allies with abundant harshness for its remarkably foolish policy on Ukraine.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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

History is written by the victors. Well, yes, but not if your enemies are still alive and have a lot of time on their hands to edit Wikipedia.