Quotes about History

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

A genealogist is one who traces your family back as far as your money will go.

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.