history
“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new.”
“To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.”
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”
“We must respect the past and mistrust the present if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.”
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“Dynasties have a natural life span.”
“The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.”
“A page of history is worth a volume of logic.”
“Hope and history rhyme.”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect the actions of men.”
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
“We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of all possible universes.”
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.”
“History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life.”