Quotes About History

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.