History Quote by Benjamin Dana

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“but he was also a man who clearly understood the limits of the power of the sword. "Do you know," he said in those…

— Emil Ludwig

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

— John Galsworthy

“A man with no sword can never be beaten in swordmanship.”

— G K Chesterton

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

— Thomas Cranmer

Not the existence of man, but the action of man sets the wheel of history of the struggle in motion

— Anonymous

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

— Felix Frankfurter

“A sword is only as good as the man who wields it.”

— George R.R. Martin

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

— Raymond E. Feist

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

— Tom Clancy

“Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the other half would lead a man to…

— Philippa Gregory

“In the words of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: “There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to…

— Harold G. Moore