History Quote by William F. Buckley, Jr Download Open image “History is but the polemics of the victor.” — William F. Buckley, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Inspirational Love Polemics
History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from the previous… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there. — Joachim Peiper 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 isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made themselves the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor… — William F. Buckley, Jr 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