Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. – Carlton J.H. Hayes
To many of the modern generations, history, like God, is dead. – Derek Heather
[H]istory is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. – Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. – Johan Huizinga, Men and Ideas
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life. – Allen Johnson, The Historian and Historical Evidence
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences
History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. – Author Unknown
History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass. – Frederic Harrison, The Meaning of History
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius
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. – Abraham Lincoln
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. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. – Mark Twain
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. – Winston Churchill
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. – John F. Kennedy
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. – John F. Kennedy
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. – Margaret Thatcher
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. – Neil Armstrong
