Quotes about History
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.
- George H. W. Bush
There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.
- Elie Wiesel
Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.
- Max Lucado
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
- Oscar Wilde
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
- Virginia Woolf
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
- Hilaire Belloc
All tradition is merely the past.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.
- Jimmy Carter
Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.
- Billy Graham