Quotes about History
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
History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
- AW Tozer
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It's completely different for me.
- Caster Semenya
Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.
- Butch Trucks
I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.
- Ulysses S. Grant