History is concerned with time, space, and change. It is concerned with the unique person, with the unique event, and with their combination.
History Quotes
During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in control of the world.
Historically, means cannot be separated from ends: they enter them and transform their nature.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The history of most countries has been that of majorities – mounted majorities, clad in iron, armed with death, treading down the ten-fold more numerous minorities.
History, by apprising (men) of the past, will enable them to judge of the future, it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations.
Our purpose is not to buy friends or hire allies. Our purpose is to defeat poverty… our goal is to again influence history instead of merely observing it.
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
