Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

history

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. 18 sayings from Washington Irving

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. 7 views from Arnold J. Toynbee

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. 3 other quotes from Edward R. Murrow

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. 20 more quotes from Anatole France

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. 7 views from Arnold J. Toynbee

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 14 more quotes from Edward Gibbon

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 14 more quotes from Edward Gibbon

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. 14 wisdom & wit from Clarence Darrow

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. 70 thoughts from Thomas Jefferson

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. 17 wisdom & wit from John Burroughs

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? 18 quotes from Emile M. Cioran

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. 14 quotes from Vladimir Lenin

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. 10 other views from Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. 10 thoughts from Henry James

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. 11 views from Nicolas Chamfort

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. 38 sayings from William Hazlitt

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. 4 quotes from Dean Acheson

Sometimes - history needs a push. 14 quotes from Vladimir Lenin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. 14 other thoughts from Vladimir Lenin

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. 16 more thoughts from Otto von Bismarck

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. 5 views from Nikita Khrushchev

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. 3 sayings from Edward R. Murrow

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! 5 more quotes from Nikita Khrushchev

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. 4 thoughts from Charles Henry Parkhurst

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. 3 more wisdom & wit from Madame de Stael

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. 21 more sayings from Karl Marx

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. 21 quotes from Malcolm X

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. 46 sayings from John F. Kennedy

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. 21 more wisdom & wit from Karl Marx

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. 33 views from Thomas Huxley

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. 24 more sayings from James A. Baldwin

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. 46 more views from John F. Kennedy

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. 30 more thoughts from Walt Whitman

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. 53 other wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. 52 more sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. 21 wisdom & wit from Karl Marx

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. 9 more views from Margaret Fuller

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. 21 other views from Karl Marx

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. 14 thoughts from Golda Meir

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. 21 other sayings from Karl Marx

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. 26 wisdom & wit from Harry S. Truman

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. 4 thoughts from Jose Ortega y Gasset

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. 46 views from John F. Kennedy

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. 46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. 8 wisdom & wit from Joseph Brodsky

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. 15 other views from Norman Cousins

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. 10 quotes from John Maynard Keynes

History is a vast early warning system. 15 quotes from Norman Cousins

Ideas shape the course of history. 10 quotes from John Maynard Keynes

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. 6 more views from Jacques Yves Cousteau

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. 14 other thoughts from Thomas Hardy

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith. 15 other views from Reinhold Niebuhr

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. 47 other sayings from George Orwell

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. 11 wisdom & wit from Thomas Mann

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. 28 quotes from William Butler Yeats

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. 14 quotes from Jean Anouilh

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. 3 quotes from Luigi Pirandello

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. 45 wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. 8 wisdom & wit from Benito Mussolini

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. 19 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville

History is more or less bunk. 32 more quotes from Henry Ford

I came, I saw, I conquered. 12 views from Julius Caesar

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. 17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. 45 views from Aldous Huxley

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. 7 quotes from John Quincy Adams

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. 2 more views from Thurgood Marshall

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. 45 quotes from Aldous Huxley

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. 31 more thoughts from Eric Hoffer

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. 12 views from Franz Kafka

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. 8 more sayings from Benito Mussolini

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. 27 wisdom & wit from Dave Barry

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. 13 more quotes from Dag Hammarskjold

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. 10 thoughts from Hermann Hesse

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 32 other quotes from Henry Ford

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? 19 wisdom & wit from Carl Jung

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. 10 other thoughts from Hermann Hesse

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. 10 quotes from Arthur Ashe

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. 7 views from Marcus Garvey

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. 24 wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. 50 more sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. 9 more sayings from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. 2 quotes from Eldridge Cleaver

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. 19 more quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a set of lies agreed upon. 50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. 50 more quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. 20 wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. 20 quotes from Herbert Hoover

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' 24 thoughts from Lyndon B. Johnson

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. 12 wisdom & wit from Malcolm Forbes

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. 2 more sayings from C. Wright Mills

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. 20 thoughts from Herbert Hoover

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. 50 more quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. 9 other quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. 24 thoughts from Lyndon B. Johnson

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. 5 other sayings from Charles Bukowski

What is history but a fable agreed upon? 50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

World history is a court of judgment. 9 sayings from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. 12 other wisdom & wit from Bernard Baruch

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. 6 more sayings from Martin Heidegger

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. 60 sayings from H. L. Mencken

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. 26 wisdom & wit from Theodor Adorno

History is a race between education and catastrophe. 19 sayings from H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. 19 quotes from H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas. 19 other quotes from H. G. Wells

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. 60 sayings from H. L. Mencken

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. 6 quotes from Martin Heidegger

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. 10 views from Ludwig von Mises

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. 4 quotes from Arthur Henderson

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. 100 more views from Mahatma Gandhi

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. 33 more views from Dwight D. Eisenhower

History is the science of things which are not repeated. 16 more thoughts from Paul Valery

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. 29 sayings from Pablo Picasso

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. 103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche

Legend remains victorious in spite of history. 6 more wisdom & wit from Sarah Bernhardt

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. 33 views from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. 36 sayings from Theodore Roosevelt

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. 6 other views from William O. Douglas

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. 8 other wisdom & wit from Frank Herbert

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. 6 more quotes from William O. Douglas

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! 33 other quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. 16 quotes from Paul Valery

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. 33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

The people who have really made history are the martyrs. 4 wisdom & wit from Aleister Crowley

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. 36 other thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. 33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. 6 thoughts from Timothy Leary

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. 6 other views from Leigh Hunt

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. 8 views from Alphonse de Lamartine

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. 20 other quotes from George S. Patton

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. 20 quotes from George S. Patton

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. 25 quotes from Will Durant

Blood alone moves the wheels of history. 32 more quotes from Martin Luther

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice. 25 sayings from Will Durant

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. 78 views from Voltaire

History is written by the victors. 74 views from Winston Churchill

History should be written as philosophy. 78 more quotes from Voltaire

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. 74 other quotes from Winston Churchill

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. 19 other quotes from Charles de Gaulle

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. 2 thoughts from Stefan Zweig

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. 78 quotes from Voltaire

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. 25 more quotes from C. S. Lewis

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. 4 other sayings from Auguste Rodin

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. 7 more sayings from Louis D. Brandeis

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. 25 quotes from Will Durant

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. 3 other quotes from James K. Polk

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. 52 quotes from George Eliot

The history of the world is the world's court of justice. 29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. 9 quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. 98 views from Mark Twain

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. 12 other views from Gene Tierney

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. 14 quotes from Wendell Phillips

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. 11 quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. 52 quotes from George Eliot

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. 2 other thoughts from Friedrich Engels

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. 2 other sayings from Alan Shepard

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. 2 views from Eugene V. Debs

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. 6 sayings from Carter G. Woodson

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. 75 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. 12 views from Mao Zedong

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. 12 quotes from Mao Zedong

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. 18 other quotes from Margaret Mead

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. 68 views from Samuel Butler

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. 46 thoughts from George Santayana

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. 3 other views from Johan Huizinga

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. 58 more quotes from Thomas Carlyle

History shows that there are no invincible armies. 11 thoughts from Joseph Stalin

History, a distillation of rumour. 58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. 12 quotes from Rudyard Kipling

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. 19 more sayings from Woodrow Wilson

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. 11 wisdom & wit from Rebecca West

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. 58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. 2 other wisdom & wit from David M. Shoup

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. 5 wisdom & wit from Anwar Sadat

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. 18 sayings from Margaret Mead

The history of art is the history of revivals. 68 sayings from Samuel Butler

The history of liberty is a history of resistance. 19 other views from Woodrow Wilson

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. 68 other quotes from Samuel Butler

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. 19 more views from Woodrow Wilson

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. 12 quotes from Mao Zedong

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. 23 quotes from Henry Miller

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. 19 more sayings from Woodrow Wilson

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 46 thoughts from George Santayana

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. 2 quotes from Julien Benda

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. 5 other quotes from Jean Genet

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. 67 views from Francis Bacon

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. 13 quotes from Dante Alighieri

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. 3 more wisdom & wit from Edward Kennedy

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. 5 sayings from Christopher Columbus

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. 30 quotes from Virginia Woolf

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. 3 more thoughts from Augustine Birrell

History develops, art stands still. 26 quotes from E. M. Forster

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. 4 more quotes from Konrad Adenauer

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. 9 thoughts from Barry Goldwater

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. 12 views from Thomas Merton

Libraries are not made, they grow. 3 more quotes from Augustine Birrell

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. 75 other sayings from Aristotle

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner

That great dust-heap called 'history'. 3 quotes from Augustine Birrell

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. 2 quotes from William McKinley

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. 4 thoughts from Barbara Tuchman

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. 11 more quotes from Epicurus

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. 30 thoughts from Virginia Woolf

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. 40 quotes from William James

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. 2 views from Horatio Alger

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. 2 other quotes from William Halsey

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. 11 other thoughts from Douglas MacArthur

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. 37 more quotes from Edmund Burke

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. 41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

World history is tragic. 17 sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. 7 more thoughts from Walter Bagehot

All history is incomprehensible without Christ. 2 quotes from Ernest Renan

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. 22 quotes from Henry Adams

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. 3 other thoughts from Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Failure is impossible. 14 sayings from Susan B. Anthony

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. 3 thoughts from Nicolaus Copernicus

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. 21 other thoughts from W. H. Auden

History takes time. History makes memory. 31 other thoughts from Gertrude Stein

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. 22 thoughts from Henry Adams

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. 26 other quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. 8 sayings from Charles Darwin

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. 31 more sayings from Gertrude Stein

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. 30 more thoughts from George Washington

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. 30 quotes from George Washington

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. 31 quotes from Gertrude Stein

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. 73 other thoughts from Victor Hugo

A chronicle is very different from history proper. 9 views from Howard Nemerov

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. 7 other thoughts from Lawrence Durrell

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. 6 quotes from Grover Cleveland

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. 2 quotes from Ralph Abernathy

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. 6 other views from William Morris

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. 4 quotes from Rosa Luxemburg

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. 50 quotes from Robert Frost

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me. 5 more quotes from William Jennings Bryan

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. 2 quotes from George M. Humphrey

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. 3 wisdom & wit from Harold Wilson