“Good people are remembered long after they are gone, but the wicked are soon forgotten.” Continue reading
Category Archives: History
Napoleon Bonaparte on History
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” Continue reading
John F. Kennedy on History
“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.” Continue reading
Charles de Gaulle on History
“I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.” Continue reading
L. Frank Baum on Imagination
“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” Continue reading
John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.” Continue reading
Edward Gibbon on History
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.” Continue reading
Robertson Davies on Future
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.” Continue reading
H. G. Wells on History and Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on History
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” Continue reading
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