Famous Quotes About history

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.