Quotes on World History

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole Like some pocket history of the world, so general As to constitute a sob or wail

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

World history is a court of judgment.