European History Quotes

12 European History quotes by 12 unique authors

• From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to… — David Cameron
• The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and… — Orlando Figes
• It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
• What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second,… — Margaret Thatcher
• In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both… — A J P Taylor
• With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the… — Charles Tilly
• John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a… — Rocco Buttiglione
• More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen
• I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old… — Lisel Mueller
• The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair. — George Will
• Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may… — Elliott Abrams
• I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next… — Tony Judt

Who Wrote These European History Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 12 European History Quotes as follows:

• 1 European History Quote by Tony Judt
• 1 European History Quote by Rocco Buttiglione
• 1 European History Quote by Orlando Figes
• 1 European History Quote by Margaret Thatcher
• 1 European History Quote by Lisel Mueller
• 1 European History Quote by Herbert Butterfield
• 1 European History Quote by George Will
• 1 European History Quote by Elliott Abrams
• 1 European History Quote by David Cameron
• 1 European History Quote by Charles Tilly
• 1 European History Quote by Anders Fogh Rasmussen
• 1 European History Quote by A J P Taylor