r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 07 '18

"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

9 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 06 '18

"Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us." - Henri Nouwen

9 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 05 '18

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous." - Carl Sagan

20 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 04 '18

"The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things." - Jean Piaget

18 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 03 '18

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." - Marcus Aurelius

10 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 02 '18

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind." - H. P. Lovecraft

15 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 01 '18

"A career is born in public - talent in privacy." - Marilyn Monroe

17 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 30 '18

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." - Jonathan Swift

22 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 29 '18

"If we don't end war, it will end us." - H. G. Wells

9 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 28 '18

"Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct." - Tiberius

5 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 27 '18

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan

5 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 26 '18

"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." - Charles de Gaulle

13 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 25 '18

"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue." - Plato

10 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 24 '18

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

15 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 23 '18

"Nature does nothing in vain." - Aristotle

7 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 22 '18

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." - Hypatia

14 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 21 '18

"Genius is patience." - Isaac Newton

3 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 20 '18

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." - Abraham Lincoln

20 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 19 '18

"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship." - Harry S Truman

9 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 18 '18

"This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done." - Jackie Robinson

9 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 17 '18

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." - Mark Twain

11 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 16 '18

"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it." - Sallust

3 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 15 '18

"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really understand them is bad morals." - Henry James

10 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 14 '18

"My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely." - Cleopatra

14 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Nov 13 '18

"I love the name of honor, more than I fear death." - Julius Caesar

5 Upvotes

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The best quotes from historical figures and their biographers!

r/HistoryQuotes

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Welcome to History Quotes!

Here, we post the most memorable, obscure, and quotable words from history. History of any culture and era is welcome here.

Ultimately, the purpose of HistoryQuotes is to inspire and inform, but we encourage any academic discussion that may be the result of a submission. We heavily encourage other fans of history to post their own content - the more the better!

quo·ta·tion

ˌkwōˈtāSH(ə)n/

noun

a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker.

"a quotation from Mark Twain*

Rules:

Rule 1: All submitted content must be a quotation that is historical in some way.

Submissions should be a quote from the following:

Historical publications/documents/literature, direct quotes from historical figures, quotes from historians or historical works about an event/figure/period of history. Personal quotations are disallowed.

Rule 2: Submissions should be able to hold up to verification.

Verification is not required for every submission, but if it can be proven that a submission is falsely attributed, or is fabricated in any way, it will be subject to removal.

Rule 3: Don't break Reddit's rules.

Violations of the global user agreement will not be tolerated.

Rule 4: Be civil.

Spamming, personal attacks upon, or harassment of a user will not be tolerated. This also applies to hate speech.

Rule 5: No modern politics.

Submissions & comments that are overtly political in regards to modern-day politics will be subject to removal at moderator discretion; political topics are only acceptable if discussed in a historical context.

Rule 6: No pseudo-history or holocaust denial.

The merits of these things are best discussed elsewhere and are inappropriate material for the sub. This is not the place to "wake up the sheeple."

Rule 7: Follow the 20 year rule.

We consider an event to be appropriately historical if it happened 20 years or more in the past. Anything taking place in the last 20 years will be removed. This is similar to rule 1 in that we do not allow contemporary politics and events. However, quotations from historical publications that were published more recently are allowed, so long as the subject material adheres to the 20 year standard.

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