Quotes about History

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow-builders, shall write the firsts chapter in the new history of man

To say that that which was true in the 17th century cannot possibly be true today, because we travel in jet planes while they traveled in horse carts—is like saying that modern men do not need food, as men did in the past, because they are wearing trenchcoats and slacks, instead-of powdered wigs and hoop skirts.

I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world. | ~~Ayn Rand "Philosophy: Who Needs It, 10