“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.” Continue reading
Category Archives: History
Neil Armstrong’s Famous Quote
“This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” 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
Aristotle on Politics
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.” Continue reading
Herb Caen on the Past
“I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.” Continue reading
Christopher Columbus on Exploration
“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.” Continue reading
Martin Luther King, Jr. on History
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” Continue reading
Winston Churchill on Democracy
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” Continue reading
H. G. Wells on History and Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” Continue reading
Edward Gibbon on History
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.” Continue reading
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