Famous History Quotes

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. – John F. Kennedy

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. – Friedrich Hegel

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. – Winston Churchill

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. – Cicero

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other alternatives. – Abba Eban

The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. – John Henrik Clarke

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

Famous History Quotes part 2

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A page of history is worth a volume of logic. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

History is written by the victors. – Winston Churchill

The history of the world is the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. – William Morris

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. – George Orwell

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson

History is a set of lies agreed upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. – Karl Marx

History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. – Martin Luther King Jr.

History teaches us that unity is strength and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals. – Haile Selassie

All history is the history of struggles for freedom. – Carl Schurz

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. – Edward R. Murrow

There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. – William Halsey Jr.

The best way to predict your future is to create it. – Peter Drucker

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Nelson Mandela

One man with courage makes a majority. – Andrew Jackson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. – Mother Teresa

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. – Mary Pickford

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see. – Winston Churchill

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. – John F. Kennedy

The history of liberty is a history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson

Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. – James Wilson

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. – Mark Twain

The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle.