History Quotes

"The greatest constitutions are written in the hearts of men."

"The errors of one age become the truths of the next."

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons."

"Learning from history prevents us from repeating its mistakes."

"The memory of past evils is the only safeguard against their recurrence."

"A free people cannot survive without knowledge of their history."

"All the experience of mankind shows that republics are ungrateful."

"I am sure that I do not err in believing that the mass of the citizens in these colonies now feel a certain amount of reverence for the GR [George III]."

"We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne."

"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."

"A nation that forgets its heroes is lost."

"In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms."

"History will tell us whether this nation can endure."

"History is a resource for the wise, a reproach to the fool."

"The use of the word federalist is a new one."

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence."

"The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America."

"The true object of the Revolution was the Declaration and the Constitution."

"The American Revolution opened a new scene in the history of mankind."

"I predict the United States will exhaust its resources within this century."

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors."

"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman."

"If we believe that historical events are important, we must believe that it is important to know how they occurred."

"No man can read the history of our country without becoming a better man and a better woman."

"I was sold off when I was a small girl not to be reclaimed by my mother."

"I have been told that I was born in the state of Ulster County, in the year 1797."

"America has not yet realized that, with the principles of the Revolution, it has the power to establish a new world."

"The Constitution as written was defective and had to be fixed by the sword."

"Those who will not learn from history are condemned to repeat its mistakes."

"History will judge whether my actions were just or unjust."