Famous Quotes About history

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.