Famous Quotes About history

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.