History Quote by George Washington

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will…

— Anonymous

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt…

— Aeschines

“Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they…

— David Hume

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and…

— Abigail Adams

The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these…

— Robert James Waller

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

— Charles Spurgeon

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

— Queen Elizabeth II

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from…

— Jacob Burckhardt

“women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness”

— erica jong

“History is a litany of injustice, no one denies it. But when has a simple solution ever been anything but evil? Only in complexity…

— Anne Rice