“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
History is not just names and dates — it is the story of how we got here and a warning about where we might be headed. These quotes look at the past with curiosity, respect, and the awareness that those who ignore it tend to repeat it.
“Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.”
“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.”
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
“Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.”
“The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.”
“We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.”
“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.”
“In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.”
“Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.”
“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.”
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
“World history is tragic.”