Top 465 History Quotes

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

Ken Burns

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Paul Harris

Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.

Monica Crowley

My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as much a child of the West as someone born in Montana or Wyoming.

My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as much a child of the West as someone born in Montana or Wyoming.

Clive Sinclair

History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

Hilary Mantel

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

Helen Thomas

I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.

Dennis C. Blair

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

Daniel Goldstein

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Mahatma Gandhi

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

Twyla Tharp

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