History Quotes

"The continuity of our institutions and traditions and constitutional settlement is an achievement of the first importance."

"The man of business who thinks that the world is conducted on business lines has no understanding of history."

"We are not slaves to the past, but neither are we free from it."

"History is philosophy teaching by examples"

"Language evolves with civilization"

"The course of history repeats itself in cycles"

"Civil history is the history of laws"

"The past instructs the present"

"History teaches us that ideas shape civilizations more than events."

"A people who do not understand their own history are condemned to repeat the mistakes of their ancestors."

"Those who have looked at matters with any degree of seriousness know that political change almost always lags economic change."

"The claim that we can plan our way to prosperity is refuted by every attempt to do so throughout history."

"History is philosophy taught by examples, not by arguments alone."

"History teaches that human nature is both capable of great good and terrible evil."

"History is the science of what has been."

"To understand a nation, one must understand its myths and legends."

"The past speaks to us through the ruins and monuments we discover."

"Nations rise and fall according to the health of their moral character."

"The cycles of history are the breathing of civilization itself."

"The nation that forgets its myths forgets itself."

"Language is the archive of history."

"History teaches us the consequences of human choices."

"History is a mirror in which we see ourselves."

"History is a record of the follies and wisdom of mankind."

"The study of history guards against the repetition of error."

"History is the mirror in which we see ourselves."

"One of the most striking accomplishments of my age is that illusions have devoured nations."

"History repeats itself to those who do not learn from it."

"History is our greatest teacher."

"History is the record of reason unfolding in human affairs."