History quotations

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◆ Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

- Robert Kennedy99

◆ A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

- M. Scott Peck99

◆ I came, I saw, I conquered.

- Julius Caesar99

◆ Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

- Edmund Burke99

◆ That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

- Aldous Huxley99

◆ History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

- John F. Kennedy99

◆ The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

- A. Whitney Brown99

◆ Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

- Neil Armstrong99

◆ Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

- John Adams99

◆ Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

- George Washington99

◆ History never looks like history when you are living through it.

- John W. Gardner99

◆ The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain99

◆ The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

- Woodrow Wilson99