Quotes about History
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
— John Barrymore
Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.
— Hugh Ross
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.
— Albert Schweitzer
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
— Aldous Huxley
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.
— Alexander Hamilton
The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.
— Malcolm X
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
— Ernest Hemingway
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
— Abraham Lincoln
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
— Harry S. Truman
One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
— Ronald Reagan
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
— Washington Irving
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
— Ayn Rand