Quotes about History

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

We have to ask, Why is there no other first-century Jew who has millions of followers today? Why isn't there a John the Baptist movement? Why, of all first-century figures, including the Roman emperors, is Jesus still worshiped today, while the others have crumbled into the dust of history?

Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

America was never officially a Christian nation, since neither Jesus Christ nor the Bible are mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. But there's no denying the influence Christianity has had on our country.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Before Turner there was no fog in London.

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.