history Quotes

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.