Famous History Quotes Part – 30

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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

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The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer’s booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

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The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

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The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

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The men who make history have no time to write about it

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The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

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The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

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The notion that any one person can describe ”what really happened” is an absurdity. If ten – or a hundred – people witness an event, there will be ten – or a hundred – different versions of what took place.

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The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

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The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been ‘great changes.’

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The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.


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