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| 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. | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. | | Woody Allen | |
| Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say | | Will Durant | |
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| Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. | | Plato | |
| Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party. | | Joan Crawford | |
| Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach | | Aldous Huxley | |
| The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. | | Aldous Huxley | |
| The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle | | Eric Hoffer | |
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| The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors | | Voltaire | |
| The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a series of race murders | | Sigmund Freud | |
| The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds | | Paul Valery | |
| The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev. | | Nikita Khrushchev | |
| The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said | | Voltaire | |
| The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know | | Harry S Truman | |
