Quotes about History

I can with truth assure you, I heard Bulletts whistle and believe me there was something charming in the sound.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

Much of late modernity assumes that dependence on God is a mark of human immaturity and an obstacle to human freedom. The life of Karol Wojtyla and his accomplishment as Pope John Paul II suggest a dramatic, alternative possibility: that a man who has been seized and transformed by the "more excellent way" can bend the curve of history so that freedom's cause is advanced.

Religious conviction, and the truths Christianity teaches about the inalienable dignity of every human life, can be a dynamic, creative force, bending history in a more human direction.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.