When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamGermany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore RooseveltBritain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.
Noam ChomskyPeople who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Joe BidenStudy the past, if you would divine the future.
ConfuciusThe history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. EisenhowerBefore printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David ThoreauTo all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
Queen Elizabeth III became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
Clint EastwoodAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Albert CamusWe are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston ChurchillBut let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
George H. W. BushHow many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Leonardo da VinciRevolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl MarxThe principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam ChomskyWell, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.
Steve JobsIt’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.
Henry KissingerBlood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin LutherWe would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. KennedyCondemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Fidel CastroWe have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. KennedyCuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.
Fidel CastroAs a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.
Joyce MeyerSomeday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIf past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren BuffettSo long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous HuxleyWho has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl JungIn the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
David HareI think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.
John KennedyThe progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry AdamsRead about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.
Jim MattisHistory shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
Noam ChomskyEvery writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
Haruki MurakamiHow wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya AngelouSome of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
Margaret AtwoodNow, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
George W. BushFellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham LincolnIn ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry PratchettWar is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston ChurchillThe Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
Bill GatesI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas JeffersonLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus AureliusNixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S. TrumanEver since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.
Edmund HillaryThe solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.
Stephen CoveyI have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
Abraham LincolnNo people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
James BaldwinHistory has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. ForbesIf a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayThe true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
George W. BushThings have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
Elon MuskIt’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
Christopher HitchensThe more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
Maya AngelouWhen I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
Jackie RobinsonThe people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas SowellPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James BaldwinGreat minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur SchopenhauerSome mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
Dalai Lama