History Quotes

"People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes" "When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back" "America is a country of inventors and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men" "For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" "You will get the best prediction of the future from the realization that the predictive power of the past has never been good at making future predictions" "I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time" "The older the question, the older the answer" "We don't lose the past; it lives in us" "The past remains the past" "It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people." "Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." "In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger" "The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." "History is written by the people" "We are not makers of history. We are made by history."