history Quotes

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

History should be written as philosophy.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.