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. - Martin Luther King Jr
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all. - Will Durant
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths. - Will Durant
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. - Harry Browne
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. - Will Durant
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. - Will Durant
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. - Henry Ford
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away. - Will Durant
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people. - Harry Browne
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars. - Will Durant
History is replete with the stories of strong-minded, resolutely willed individuals, who, steadfastly holding to their inner convictions, have been able to inspire their fellow-man, and in the face of tremendous and determined opposition have literally created out of nothing great businesses, huge empires, and new worlds. - Claude M. Bristol
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C.S. Lewis
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. - George R. R. Martin
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