Quote by John Toland
[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is h
[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. – John Toland

Other quotes by John Toland
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
History
category

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. – Warren Buffett

Category:
History

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didnt eat lunch. – A. N. Wilson

Category:
History

Nixons full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the countrys history. – Conrad Black

Category:
History

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

Category:
History

Random Quotes

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. – Alan Greenspan

Category:
finance

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order. – Spiro T. Agnew

Category:
Liberalism

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first. – John T. Flynn

Category:
Society

The practice of reflective meditation, which consists of holding certain ideas in the mind long enough to enable them to form emotional connections, tends to break up the crust of habit and to create a new will. – Walter M. Horton

Category:
Meditation