Quotes about History

This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

But it is the spot that the Lord of History says is His own personal real estate, and the very place where He will bring history to its conclusion.

We are the heirs of the ages

History which is not professedly utilitarian, history which is didactic only as great poetry is unconsciously didactic, may yet possess that highest form of usefulness, the power to thrill the souls of men with stories of strength and craft and daring, and to lift them out of their common selves to the heights of high endeavor.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.