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History, the study of the magnificent past and renowned regulations, is not just confined to schoolbooks and library records, but is essential for everyone who wants to reach out to their roots. Familiarity with history not only inspires you to have a bold take towards the difficult situations in life but also urges you to learn from the experiences of people who had lived, strived and warred to overcome the odds. Enjoy the existence of strong today with these famous history quotes.

Tom Hayden

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Tom Hayden
Christopher Columbus

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

World Light Sun
Christopher Columbus
James Baldwin

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

People
James Baldwin
Dave Barry

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Communication
Dave Barry
Sacha Baron Cohen

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

Sacha Baron Cohen
Gillian Anderson

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

Science Geography
Gillian Anderson
Salma Hayek

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Love Music Art
Salma Hayek
Benito Mussolini

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Greatness People
Benito Mussolini
Florence Pugh

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

Women
Florence Pugh
W. H. Auden

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Questions
W. H. Auden
Steve King

Liberals want to amend our country's history to eradicate the role of Christianity in America and chisel references to God or faith from our historical buildings.

Country Faith
Steve King
John David Washington

I'm connected to a Wesley Snipes, and I'm connected to Giancarlo Esposito because of the history of films that we've all been a part of with Spike Lee.

John David Washington
Neil Gorsuch

Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country.

Greatness Country
Neil Gorsuch
Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Kevin Costner

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

Greatness Time World
Kevin Costner

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

Battles Time Equality
Michael B. Jordan
Woodrow Wilson

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Government Power Freedom
Woodrow Wilson

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

Good Education
Samuel L. Jackson
Xi Jinping

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

Good Wisdom
Xi Jinping
Morgan Freeman

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman
Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley
Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Tradition
Henry James
Desmond Tutu

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Desmond Tutu
Alexis de Tocqueville

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Camille Paglia

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Culture
Camille Paglia

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

World Time Democracy
Steve King
George Santayana

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

People
George Santayana
Prince Charles

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

People
Prince Charles
Gerald R. Ford

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Progress Experience
Gerald R. Ford
Lin-Manuel Miranda

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

Age Women World
Charlie Kaufman
Ronaldo

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.

Tradition
Ronaldo
Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Time Fall Glory
Confucius
Dan Quayle

It's a very good historical book about history.

Good
Dan Quayle

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. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

World
C. S. Lewis
Issa Rae

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.

Issa Rae

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

Community Experience Home
Charlie Hunnam
Chris Rock

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

School
Chris Rock
Martin Scorsese

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Love Fall
Martin Scorsese
Bill Maher

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Tough
Bill Maher
Elon Musk

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

Environment
Elon Musk
Vladimir Putin

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

Culture
Vladimir Putin
Sonia Sotomayor

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

Sonia Sotomayor
Robert Kennedy

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.

Change Work
Robert Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson

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

Swimming Strength
Woodrow Wilson
Banksy

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

Banksy

The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything.

Greatness
Elisabeth Moss
Mohamed Salah

I want to be the best player in the history of Egyptian football.

Best Football
Mohamed Salah
Joan of Arc

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Best
Joan of Arc

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Government
Ayn Rand
Tony Blair

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Wickedness Rest World
Tony Blair
William Morris

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

People Art
William Morris
Camille Paglia

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Dress Freedom Women
Camille Paglia
John F. Kennedy

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.

Past Future
John F. Kennedy

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

Love Strength Freedom
Rudy Giuliani

Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.

Character Health
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Prince Charles

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

Prince Charles
Doc Rivers

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Doc Rivers
Thurgood Marshall

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Things
Thurgood Marshall
Harry S. Truman

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

Police
Harry S. Truman
Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Liberty
Woodrow Wilson

I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore.

Power
Ron Howard
Prince Andrew

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

Reality
Prince Andrew
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Body Faith
Mahatma Gandhi
Lyndon B. Johnson

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Water Morning
Lyndon B. Johnson
Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Past People
Napoleon Bonaparte
Margaret Thatcher

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Philosophy
Margaret Thatcher
Karl Marx

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Tragedy
Karl Marx
Harry S. Truman

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

World
Harry S. Truman

If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.

World
David Graeber
Shinzo Abe

My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history. And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should be left in the hands of historians and experts.

Face
Shinzo Abe

When I was a young player, I never dreamed of scoring five goals in a game - and in nine minutes is something else. And when it happened, it was incredible that there could ever be anything like that in the history of the game. It took me a couple of days to realise what I'd done.

Goals
Robert Lewandowski
Ambrose Bierce

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce
Khabib Nurmagomedov

I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.

Money People
Khabib Nurmagomedov
Vladimir Putin

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Government
Vladimir Putin
Julius Caesar

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Life Courage Hope
Michelle Obama
Harry S. Truman

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Change Courage
Harry S. Truman
Matt Lucas

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

Matt Lucas
John Adams

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.

Good Freedom Hope
John Adams
Anthony Bourdain

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

Feelings Food
Anthony Bourdain

Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history. He says the worst, most politically incorrect things, even for the time the play is set in - and yet audiences adore that character.

Character Time Wickedness
Kelsey Grammer

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Growth Nation
Cory Booker
Dan Quayle

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Nation
Dan Quayle
Nelson Mandela

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Experience
Nelson Mandela
Vasyl Lomachenko

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

Money
Vasyl Lomachenko

Turnberry is truly one of the most spectacular properties on earth. The views, the setting, and grandeur of the hotel - there's just nothing else like it. We've respected the architectural history of the hotel first and foremost, but most of all, we've respected the tradition of golf at Turnberry.

Nothing Earth Golf
Eric Trump
Brian Austin Green

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

Rest Movies
Brian Austin Green
Dustin Poirier

I'm not a quitter, man. Just look at my history.

Dustin Poirier
Henry James

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Literature Greatness
Henry James
John Maynard Keynes

Ideas shape the course of history.

Inspiration Ideas
John Maynard Keynes
Thomas Merton

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Politics Socialism Education Hell
Thomas Merton
George Santayana

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Past
George Santayana

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

People Culture Greatness
Johnny Depp
George Washington

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

Good Peace Faith Justice
George Washington
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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.

People Silence Society Tragedy
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Margaret Thatcher

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

World
Margaret Thatcher
B. R. Ambedkar

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Moral Values Victory
B. R. Ambedkar
Karl Marx

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl Marx
Kevin Spacey

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

Country
Kevin Spacey