History
George Bernard Shaw on History
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
Aristotle on Politics
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
George Santayana on History
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Voltaire on History and Crime
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
William Shakespeare on Honesty
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”
Herb Caen on the Past
“I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.”
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.”
H. G. Wells on History and Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
Helen Keller on Knowledge
“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge – broad, deep knowledge – is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”
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.”
John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower on War
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
Mogens Jallberg on Democracy vs. Feudalism
“In democracy it’s your vote that counts; In feudalism it’s your count that votes.”
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.”
Edward Gibbon on History
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.”
Thomas Jefferson on Dreams and History
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Sir William Preece on the Telephone
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”
King Solomon on Value
“Good people are remembered long after they are gone, but the wicked are soon forgotten.”
Thomas Jefferson on Liberty
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Winston Churchill on Democracy
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
Thomas Sowell on History and Society
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
Christopher Columbus on Exploration
“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.”
Plato on Poetry
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
King Farouk of Egypt on Politics
“The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left–the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.”
Anonymous Quote
“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.”