Best History Teaches Quotes

40 History Teaches quotes by 36 unique authors

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. — Abba Eban
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. — Ronald Reagan
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with… — Haile Selassie
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. — Gertrude Stein
I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They… — Sheri S. Tepper
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who… — Adolf Hitler
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons. — Lucien Febvre
History teaches everything, even the future. — Alphonse de Lamartine
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
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable. — David Blunkett
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of… — Samuel Freeman Miller
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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