Best Historical Quotes
1381 Historical quotes by 951 unique authors
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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel…
— Dan Brown
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to…
— James Buchanan
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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid…
— James Buchan
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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
— Edmund Burke
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
— Ken Burns
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
— Samuel Butler
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There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers'…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in…
— Kirk Cameron
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the…
— Albert Camus
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring…
— Angela Carter
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During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the…
— Michael N. Castle
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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
— Fidel Castro
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy…
— Fred Allen
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If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the…
— Dick Cheney
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose…
— Winston Churchill
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A home without books is a body without soul.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
— Sandra Cisneros
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
— Georges Clemenceau
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I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in…
— Isabel Allende
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Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see…
— Tadao Ando
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he…
— Maya Angelou
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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
— Marie Antoinette
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