History Quotes

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority. Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.

We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.