There is no better teacher than history in determining the future… There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the...

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past — no matter how good it was.

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behavior.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

The Noblest form of Affection

I believe the momentum that is now building up will give us a chance to change the course of history and head off a pandemic caused by the H5N1 virus.

Here we introduce the nation’s first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history’s first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union’s man was one Rutherford B....

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

If it happens that the human race doesn’t make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered...

History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

…not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller’s tale may end, but history goes on always.

Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or laws can be known through their scriptures, their prophets, or some special revelation....

You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker

We have a long history and tradition with the Boy Scouts and we look forward to continuing that relationship. It’s a win-win situation all the way around.

He couldn’t drive the horror of cannibalism from his brain, just as he couldn’t wholly suppress a simple observation that seemed to rebut their savagery: these were the nicest man-eating barbarians a lonely wanderer could...

When you study history, you’re really studying yourself. Every bit of history I’ve uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.

…onde está ou tenha estado um homem é preciso que esteja ou tenha estado toda a humanidade.

But I knew the truth and that’s why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.

Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless.

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is … Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since...

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.

Fools who don’t respect the past are doomed to repeat it.

Fortunately, I got the positive answer and I think the rest is history.

This nation was founded by many men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the...

I don’t care what is written,” Meyer Landsman says. “I don’t care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son’s throat...

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don’t you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.

In the long run, even a tyrannical government only has the power that the people confer on it and coming to understand history is the beginning of making things right.

We’re definitely into the history. Columbia’s come a long way, and we want to see it go further.

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third...

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

(The trip) was a total success. We were happy to host them and be a part of the history of the ship.

By journey’s end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling “the...

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one...

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories...

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.