Famous History Quotes

We marvel at the ancient architectural wonders that attract tourists the world-over. But the essence lies in the history of the foundation. History's frozen music is like a mute sentinel who helps cultures survive. Victories and failures, traditions and heritage, make history ever changing. Yet history remains the same. Read these famous history quotes and get drawn into the realms of the past.

• Voltaire
  History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

• Napoleon Bonaparte
  What is history but a fable agreed upon?

• Karl Marx
  History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

• Winston Churchill
  History is written by the victors.

• Thomas Jefferson
  I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

• John Maynard Keynes
  Ideas shape the course of history.

• William Shakespeare
  There is a history in all men's lives.

• Mark Twain
  The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

• Henry David Thoreau
  It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

• Alexander Smith
  I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

• Robert Heinlein
  A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

• Marshall McLuhan
  Only the vanquished remember history.

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

• Stephen Covey
  Live out of your imagination, not your history.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
  We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.