History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

"We must learn from history or be condemned to repeat its mistakes."
Ehud Barak
"History judges us by our choices, not our circumstances."
Ehud Barak
R
"History will judge us not by the wars we won, but by the peace we failed to make."
Rabin Yitzhak
R
"History shows us that peace is always possible if we have the will to achieve it."
Rabin Yitzhak
B
"History teaches us that freedom is never given, it must be earned."
Benjamin Netanyahu
B
"History will judge us by how we faced our greatest challenges."
Benjamin Netanyahu
M
"A nation that does not remember its past is condemned to lose its future."
Menachem Begin
M
"A people without memory is a people without identity."
Menachem Begin
"History teaches us that those who refuse to learn from it are condemned to repeat its mistakes."
Shimon Peres
"History is written by those who understand the power of narrative."
Shimon Peres
Y
"History will remember us"
Yasser Arafat
Y
"We carry our history forward"
Yasser Arafat
M
"We must preserve our cultural heritage and identity."
Mahmoud Abbas
M
"History will judge our actions fairly."
Mahmoud Abbas
"History is not what happened; history is what we learned from what happened."
Shimon Peres
R
"History judges us not by our intentions, but by our actions."
Rabin Yitzhak
R
"A nation that forgets its history is doomed to repeat it."
Rabin Yitzhak
D
"We inherit the past, but we create the future."
David Ben-Gurion
D
"We are writing a new chapter in the story of our people."
David Ben-Gurion
D
"A people that forgets its history is doomed to repeat it."
David Ben-Gurion
G
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
Golda Meir
M
"History does not end, and those who ignore it are condemned to repeat it."
Menachem Begin
M
"A nation that forgets its past has no future."
Menachem Begin
M
"History remembers not the weak, but those who stood firm in their convictions."
Menachem Begin
M
"We cannot escape our past, but we can learn from it."
Menachem Begin
M
"We are all products of history, but we are not slaves to it."
Menachem Begin
Y
"History will judge whether we chose the path of wisdom."
Yasser Arafat
Y
"Our culture and heritage define who we are as a people."
Yasser Arafat
B
"History teaches us that weakness invites aggression, strength preserves peace."
Benjamin Netanyahu
B
"We must teach history not to glorify war, but to prevent it."
Benjamin Netanyahu