Quotes by History I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause. Dwight D. Eisenhower sacrificehistoryblood It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. E. M. Forster self-confidenceofficehistory The art of creation is older than the art of killing. Ed Koch killinghistoryart You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history? Dwight D. Eisenhower historicalweatherhistory Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad. Dwight D. Eisenhower madmenhistory The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . . Dwight D. Eisenhower racerunninghistory There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous. Edgar Dale ignorancetimehistory Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. Dwight D. Eisenhower politicalchangehistory The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. Edgar Quinet maskwarhistory Skepticism is history's bedfellow. Edgar Saltus bedfellowsskepticismhistory Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it. Edgar Degas philosophyhistoryart Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. Edmund Beecher Wilson dynastysciencehistory The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it. Edmund Morgan governmentexercisehistory History at its best is vicarious experience. Edmund Morgan vicarioushistory History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true. Edmund Snow Carpenter reversaloppositeshistory [History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. Edith Sitwell sawdustmillshistory The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history. Eduard Bernstein eventsmeanhistory I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs. Edmund Burke menhistoryway History is past politics, and politics is present history. Edward Augustus Freeman politicalhistorypast The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. Edward Gibbon romehistorypeople«1213141516171819202122»
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