60 Best History Quotes

The lessons of history would suggest that civilizations move in cycles. - Elon Musk

We stand on the shoulders of those who fought fires before us.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. – Edmund Burke

The red helmet isn't just color - it's centuries of tradition.

I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, 'If I have come to destroy you, may the Sun be blotted out from the sky.' - Jack Handey

Study the past if you would define the future. – Confucius

You never know how much you can endure until you're called upon to endure it. – Harriet Tubman

The manager told me that the previous caretaker had killed his family. He'd cut his daughters up into little bits... and then he'd blown his brains out. – Wendy Torrance

So I went to the White House. Again. – Forrest Gump

I thought I was goin' back to Vietnam, but instead, they decided the best way to fight the war was to have a ping-pong tournament. – Forrest Gump

The past is not dead. It's not even past. – Tommy Shelby (quoting William Faulkner)

History is not made by those who did nothing. – Margaret Thatcher

Families are like fiefdoms; history, tempers, secrets. – Clay Morrow

This race will be remembered forever! – Narrator

She ran through all of her roles, and through the entire history of Japan. – Narrator

We were voyagers! We were voyagers! – Tala

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – O'Brien

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

History is bunk. – Henry Ford

We don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones.

He was a fugitive from all the plagues and catastrophes that had ever lashed mankind.

It was not a story to pass on.

This is not a story to pass on.

Where I was before I came here, that place is real. It's never going away. Even if the whole farm—every tree and grass blade of it dies. The picture is still there and what's more, if you go there—you who never was there—if you go there and stand in the place where it was, it will happen again; it will be there for you, waiting for you.

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

I'm not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

History is written by the victors. – Winston Churchill

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

A man’s called a traitor or a liberator. A rich man’s a thief or a philanthropist. – The Wizard

Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. – V

You can't love anyone that much. – Sally Owens. I never could either. But the Ancestor did. – Aunt Frances

Let's make sure that history never forgets the name... Enterprise. – Captain Picard

So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. – Quint

You once called me a war-mongering, tool of the capitalist class. – Sam Wainwright

We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us. – Big Al

This is where they fought the battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fightin' the same fight that we're still fightin' amongst ourselves today. – Coach Boone

You listen, and you take a lesson from the dead. If we don't come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. – Coach Boone

In the year of our Lord thirteen hundred and fourteen, patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn.

The world is changing, reforming. This is your moment. – Niels Bohr

The lesson of history is that you do not know the lesson of history. – Isidor Isaac Rabi

Hello, brother. – Damon Salvatore

I've wanted to do that since the third grade. – Fred Jones

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. – Narrator

I've known him my whole life. He's my friend. – Steve Rogers

That belongs in a museum! – Indiana Jones