History Quote by George Bailey

“A nation that fails to recognize and appreciate history is destined for decay.”

— Mark Mortensen

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

— John F. Kennedy

History is the memory of a nation

— Thomas Sowell

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

“In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had…

— Wallace Stegner

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.”

— Georges Clemenceau

“History repeating itself is history's oldest story.”

— Steve Wick

“The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.”

— Walter A. McDougall