--- title: "14 History Quotes By Charles Krauthammer" description: "14 History quotes by Charles Krauthammer. Plus more from Charles Krauthammer and more History sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/911/charles-krauthammer-1232_cruel_history-is-not-just-cruel-it-is-witty-23_2313692.png" --- > [History is not just cruel. It is witty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/history-is-not-just-cruel-it-is-witty/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/911/charles-krauthammer-1232_cruel_history-is-not-just-cruel-it-is-witty-23_2313692.png) > [I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-think-if-you-re-going-to-master-policy-especially-world-affairs-you/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/charles-krauthammer-1232_affair_i-think-if-you-re-going-to-master-policy_2627375.png) > [When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/when-you-have-the-worst-disaster-in-american-history-you-ve-got-to-be/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f1/charles-krauthammer-1232_american-history_when-you-have-the-worst-disaster-in-amer_1820941.png) > [Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/clashes-of-values-and-the-struggle-for-primacy-constitute-a-constant/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f79/charles-krauthammer-1232_accounts_clashes-of-values-and-the-struggle-for-p_1796590.png) > [“Obama is learning very late that, for a superpower, inaction is a form of action. You can abdicate, but you really can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/obama-is-learning-very-late-that-for-a-superpower-inaction-is-a-form/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/724/charles-krauthammer-1232_history_obama-is-learning-very-late-that-for-a-s_812849.png) > [Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/obama-was-quite-serious-when-he-said-he-was-going-to-change-the-world/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d1/charles-krauthammer-1232_change-the-world_obama-was-quite-serious-when-he-said-he_299438.jpg) > [“You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/you-can-have-the-most-advanced-and-efflorescent-cultures-get-your-2/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/charles-krauthammer-1232_ancient-history_you-can-have-the-most-advanced-and-efflo_1803021.jpg) > [“Indeed, the lesson of our history is that the task of merely maintaining strong and sturdy the structures of a constitutional order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/indeed-the-lesson-of-our-history-is-that-the-task-of-merely/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/266/charles-krauthammer-1232_constitutional_indeed-the-lesson-of-our-history-is-that_1055589.jpg) > [You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/you-can-have-the-most-advanced-and-efflorescent-cultures-get-your/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8a/charles-krauthammer-1232_ancient_you-can-have-the-most-advanced-and-efflo_681452.png) > [“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/we-grow-justly-weary-of-our-politics-but-we-must-remember-this/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dd/charles-krauthammer-1232_history_we-grow-justly-weary-of-our-politics-but_819323.png) > [Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/two-decades-ago-however-socialism-and-communism-died-rudely-then-were-3/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/850/charles-krauthammer-1232_abolition_two-decades-ago-however-socialism-and-co_2152967.png) > [Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/two-decades-ago-however-socialism-and-communism-died-rudely-then-were-2/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92d/charles-krauthammer-1232_abolition_two-decades-ago-however-socialism-and-co_826819.png) > [If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/if-we-insist-that-public-life-be-reserved-for-those-whose-personal/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/charles-krauthammer-1232_affair_if-we-insist-that-public-life-be-reserve_988979.png) > [History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/history-has-blessed-us-with-all-the-freedom-and-advantages-of/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83a/charles-krauthammer-1232_accidents_history-has-blessed-us-with-all-the-free_1670729.png) ## Other authors on History - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edward-gibbon-31792.jpg) Edward Gibbon 136 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/edward-gibbon/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 100 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jade-45840.jpg) Jade 92 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/jade/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 78 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-yuval-noah-harari-100.jpg) Yuval Noah Harari 71 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/yuval-noah-harari/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 61 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 59 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. Bush 43 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/george-w-bush/) - [Mark Twain 42 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-howard-zinn-42481.jpg) Howard Zinn 42 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/howard-zinn/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 41 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-carlyle-90262.jpg) Thomas Carlyle 41 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/thomas-carlyle/) ## More by Charles Krauthammer > [Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/obama-and-the-democrats-were-so-critical-of-what-bush-did-the/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“America is the most welcoming, religiously tolerant, philo-semitic country in the world. No nation since Cyrus the Great’s Persia has done more for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/america-is-the-most-welcoming-religiously-tolerant-philo-semitic/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/i-believe-in-what-i-believe-and-i-think-after-all-these-years-i-ve/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/with-our-financial-house-on-fire-obama-makes-clear-both-in-in-his/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-conservative-idea-is-not-that-government-has-no-role-you-might/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-war-is-not-going-well-and-it-is-time-to-say-why-it-has-been/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“International stability is never a given. It is never the norm. When achieved, it is the product of self-conscious action by the great powers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/international-stability-is-never-a-given-it-is-never-the-norm-when/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he prefaces his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/look-i-don-t-mind-if-the-president-sends-a-budget-which-he-knows-is/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/politics-is-the-moat-the-walls-beyond-which-lie-the-barbarians-fail/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/don-t-touch-my-junk-you-airport-security-goon-my-package-belongs-to/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“The Russian Revolution and its imitators (Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, Cambodian) tried to atomize society so thoroughly--to war against the mediating structures that stand between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-russian-revolution-and-its-imitators-chinese-cuban-vietnamese/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/where-religion-is-trivialized-one-is-unlikely-to-find-persecution/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/we-must-now-brace-ourselves-for-disquisitions-on-peer-pressure/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/post-watergate-morality-by-which-anything-left-private-is-taken-as/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) > [“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity,' warns Czech president Vaclav Klaus, 'is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/the-largest-threat-to-freedom-democracy-the-market-economy-and/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/charles-krauthammer/#itemlist", "name": "14 History Quotes By Charles Krauthammer", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "History is not just cruel. 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