History Quotes

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

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.

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

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.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

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

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

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

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.