We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.
Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” Winston Churchill
History doesn’t move you more than when it’s in the iron of your own blood.
History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.
I just met history for a couple of hours, and then our ways parted.
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
More than half of our history is lost, not because they were not documented, but they had no guardians and protectors.
If you want to live like a normal person, you are already part of history.
History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
