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.
History Quotes
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.
Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Blest is the Nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom.
It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes. […]
