History Quotes

"Nations are not truly reborn without suffering and sacrifice."

"History judges men not by their intentions but by their actions."

"A nation without monuments is a nation without memory."

"History will absolve those who fought for the people."

"History is written by those who understand material conditions."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"History, as much as it may be a record of the past, is also a guide for the future."

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation."

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives"

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."

"Remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."

"More than ever before, Americans' future is linked to developments on the far side of the globe."

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941, will live in infamy."

"My early history is perfectly characterized by a single line of Gray's Elegy: 'The short and simple annals of the poor.'"

"The past is not dead; it lives within us, shaping every decision we make."

"History rhymes because humans repeat the same patterns until we learn."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

"We must learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it."

"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations."

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

"The history of the world is the history of the few."

"The political genius of the American people seems to ebb and flow."

"In modern times no nation can claim absolute independence."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"The shape of the world today is the result of a series of choices made by men and women, and we are now making similar choices."

"Chile's identity is written in the pages of its own history, not in the shadows of foreign powers."