Top 465 History Quotes

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George W. S. Trow

History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.

James Howard Kunstler

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

Vanessa Mae

Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.

Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.

Troy Dumais

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Judy Chicago

Scripture says, 'He didn't know the Lord, didn't respect the Lord, but the Lord used him to advance his kingdom.' I just believe that at this point in history, Trump will defend religious faith. I talk to him about that.

Jeff Sessions

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

Frank Luntz

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

Ann Rinaldi

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