Battle Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

— Raymond Queneau

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness,…

— Walter Bagehot

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

— Edward Gibbon

“History,” Bagehot wrote, “is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of…

— Roger Kimball

“That there are men in all countries to whom a state of war is a mine of wealth, is a fact never to be…

— Thomas Paine

History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from grunting cave…

— Ann Widdecombe

“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of…

— Patricia Hampl

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than…

— Nicolas Chamfort

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when…

— Anonymous

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

— Mahatma Gandhi

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through…

— John Keegan

And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins…

— Anne Enright