History Quotes for Cards and Scrapbooks

"Can you See anything?" "Yes, wonderful things."

"Friendship is essentially a partnership." --

Give me liberty or give me death

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.

"They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace! Christopher Robin went down with Alice! Alice is marrying one of the guard, A soldier's life is terribly hard, Says Alice!" (many thanks to AA Milne!)

We learn from History that we learn nothing from History

Everybody wants change. But nobody wants to change.

Everything in the past died yesterday; everything in the future was born today.

Heritage is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every once in a while, one of them puts his head out the window and embarrsaases all the rest of us.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

History is written by the winners.

History will never change, maybe will happen again!

History: gossip well told.

Home is where your story begins.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth, to that tremendous power alone will we submit.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Nothing changes more consistently than the past; ... the past that influences our lives is not what actually happened but what we believe happened.

Posterity, you will never know how much it cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. --John Quincy Adams

Ronald Lynch: The question was "Who wrote Hamlet?" You wrote "The Pope's cousin, Count Pope-ula, a magical monster with pencils for arms". Brendon: I'll be honest, Mr. Lynch. I made that one up.

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

There is a history in all men's lives.

To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back to the crowd.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Well behaved women rarely make history

Well behaved women rarely make history.

Well behaved women rarely make history.