Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see.
History Quotes
Journalism is merely history’s first draft.
The History of Civilization, in one sentence: They lived and loved and made beautiful things.
History is what enables each nation to use the other fellow’s past record as an alibi.
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Tain’t people’s ignorance that does so much harm; ’tis their knowin’ so much that ain’t so.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Thirty thousand killed a million. It seems a pity that the historian let that get out; it is really a most embarrassing circumstance. (reacting to a report that thirty thousand American soldiers killed a million Filipinos)
The crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilization is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
