Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. – Lyndon B. Johnson
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them. – George W. Bush
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. – Simone Weil
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. – Richard M. Nixon
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. – Mason Cooley
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. – Robert Hall
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. – Walter Scott
The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it. – George W. Bush
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. – Vladimir Lenin
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. – Hermann Hesse
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. – Ted Nugent
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. – James Hillman
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. – Otto von Bismarck
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way. – George W. Bush
The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. – Alfred A. Montapert
Sometimes – history needs a push. – Vladimir Lenin
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. – H. G. Wells
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. – David Brinkley
