Quotes about History
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
— Winston Churchill
Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.
— John F. Kennedy
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
— Hans Kung
Future is everything that past has forgotten.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
— Frank Herbert
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
— Ronald Reagan
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
— Washington Irving
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
— Martin Luther
Blood alone moves the wheels of history
— Martin Luther
the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ's merits alone.
— Martin Luther
Simeon was the ancestor of Judas Iscariot.
— Martin Luther