Famous History Quotes Part – 24

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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

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Mythology: the body of a primitive people’s beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

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Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever.

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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

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No harm’s done to history by making it something someone would want to read.- David McCullough

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No historian can take part with–or against–the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

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No less than the tourist, the writer of history profits from maps.

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

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No modern idea has affected history more than the passion of nationalism.

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No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time.

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No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

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Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man.

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Nothing capable of being memorized is history.- R. G. Collingwood

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Nothing falsifies history more than logic.- Guizot

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Nowadays we may see the office of historical research as that of explaining, and therefore lightening, the pressure that the past must exercise upon the present, and the present upon the future. Today we study the day before yesterday, in order that yesterday may not paralyse today, and today not paralyse tomorrow.

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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.


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