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

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

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

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

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

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

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

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

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mohandas Gandhi

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. Kennedy