Best History Quotes
10030 History quotes by 5052 unique authors
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
— Lord Acton
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
— Lord Acton
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History…
— Lord Acton
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
— Lord Acton
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of…
— Lord Acton
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and…
— Walter Bagehot
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me,…
— Anita Baker
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One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do…
— Ella Baker
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All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going…
— John Baldacci
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
— James A. Baldwin
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
— James A. Baldwin
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
— James A. Baldwin
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you…
— Stanley Baldwin
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the…
— Ansel Adams
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How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
— Lucille Ball
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
— Honore de Balzac
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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
— Russell Banks
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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and…
— Franklin P. Adams
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
— Henry Adams
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
— Henry Adams
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Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.
— Ben Barnes
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
— Dave Barry
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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
— Dave Barry
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