History Quote by George Otis Download Open image “History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.” — George Otis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Lessons Loser Reactionaries
“History is about winners, not about losers. History is about assessing distortions, not copying out truths. History has much to say about the way… — J. R. Vincent Copy Share Image
“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
In America, the most important thing is that people have freedom. In restricted countries, the most important thing is what people do with freedom. — George Otis Copy Share Image
Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn't. — George Otis Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
