history Quotes

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

To 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.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.