History Quote by Chris DeRose

“Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and…

— Stanley Hoffmann

“People are weary of politicians who make promises they are either unwilling or unable to keep. Society longs for statesmen but it gets politicians.…

— Henry T. Blackaby

“States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.”

— Will Durant

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they…

— Woodrow Wilson

“most of human history (chronologically speaking) has taken place in communities quite innocent of state power.”

— David Christian

“Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions.”

— Huston Smith

“regimes of the twentieth century depended not just on repression and control of the populace but on the active construction of national myth. Here…

— Philip Ball

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Our history deserves honesty and our citizens need it. Without understanding who we really were, we’ll never quite grasp who we have become, leaving…

— Ralph Peters

“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

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

— Plato

“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the…

— Jeffrey Tucker