Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. – Jefferson Davis
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. – Henry Louis Gates
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. – Francis Bacon
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. – Arthur Schopenhauer
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. – Norman Cousins
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. – David Brin
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me. – Brian Clough
Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
History shows that there are no invincible armies. – Joseph Stalin
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. – Anatole France
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. – Molly Ivins
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. – Grandma Moses
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. – C. Wright Mills
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. – Henry A. Kissinger
All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. – Alice Walker
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. – Mattie Stepanek
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. – Harry S. Truman
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. – Alan Watts
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. – Benito Mussolini
