History's Quotes
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Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
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More History's Quotes
Hansard is history's ear, already listening.
Samuel, Herbert Louis, 1st Viscount Samuel— 1949 House of Lords, Dec.
If our intention had been merely to bring back a handful of soil and rocks from the lunar gravel pit and then forget the whole thing, we would certainly be history's biggest fools.
wernher von braun— Speech, 15 July 1969, quoted in "Of a Fire on the Moon", Norman Mailer 1970
"Peace through Strength," surely history's most exploded nostrum.
christopher hitchens— "The Twilight of Panzerkommunismus" (1988)
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.
enoch powell— Speech in Grimsby (20 May 1977), from Enoch Powell on 1992 (Anaya, 1989), p. 93.
War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.
Susan Sontag— "Why Are We in Kosovo?", The New York Times (2 May 1999)
A king is history's slave.
leo tolstoy— Bk. IX, ch. 1
Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.
— About withdrawing diplomatic recognition of Taiwan in favor of the People's Republic of China
No: by the names inscribed in history's page,Names that are England's noblest heritage,Names that shall live for yet unnumbered yearsShrined in our hearts with Cressy and Poictiers;Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,But leave us still our old nobility.
— England's Trust, part iii, line 227, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Herodotus stated quite clearly that Perdiccas, the first recorded king of Macedonia, and his descendants were Greeks and there is no reason why we should not take the Father of history's word on this fundamental point..
— John Crossland, British archaeologist and Diana Constance, "Macedonian Greece", p.16, W.W. Norton & Company (September 1982)
