Inspirational Quotes on History

“Today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.”

“It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.”

“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.”

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.”

“If the thing happened, it was the central event in the history of the earth.”

“A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.”

“Today, few Americans are aware of the spiritual epidemic that wiped out the land of our Christian forefathers. Even fewer are aware that the same epidemic has reached our own shores, spreading like a virus.”

“The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they think it is new; they mistake now the for originality.”

“The whole thing was a charade--the pomp, the ceremony, the goose-stepping. the salute--but the incredible cost was very real.”

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.”

“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.”

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

“The historian has a habit of saying of people in the past: 'I think they may well be considered worthy of praise, allowing for the ideas of their times.' There will never be really good history until the historian says, ‘I think they were worthy of praise, allowing for the ideas of my time.”

“History is a story written by the finger of God.”

“Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.”

“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”

“Eran los mejores tiempos, eran los peores tiempos, era el siglo de la locura, era el siglo de la razón, era la edad de la fe, era la edad de la incredulidad, era la época de la luz, era la época de las tinieblas, era la primavera de la esperanza, era el invierno de la desesperación, lo teníamos todo, no teníamos nada.”

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

“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.”

“History shows that when the church uses the tools of the world's kingdom, it becomes as ineffectual, or as tyrannical, as any other power structure. And whenever the church has intermingled with the state, the appeal of the faith suffers as well. Ironically, our respect in the world declines in proportion to how vigorously we attempt to force others to adopt our point of view.”