History Quote by Charles Krauthammer

“Turns out we need to know one more thing on earth: politics--because of its capacity, when benign, to allow all around it to flourish,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“For politics is not just about things necessary and eternal, nor is it just a matter of good judgment in a given situation. It…

— Daniel Gross

“In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled…

— Thomas Paine

“History is supposed to be an accurate, and full, account of what actually happened. Politics is never about what actually happened. Politics is always…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Politics is a story about the relationship between the past and the future; history is a story about the relationship between the past and…

— Jill Lepore

“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”

— Otto von Bismarck

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,…

— Jon Meacham

“People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an illness. It's…

— Auberon Waugh

“a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds…

— Priscilla Smith Robertson

“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.”

— J. Christopher Herold