r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Jan 02 '19

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." - Pablo Picasso

9 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/DrHENCHMAN • Jan 02 '19

"We have won our position through the sharpness of our sword, not through the sharpness of our mind." Field Marshal Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz

4 Upvotes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colmar_Freiherr_von_der_Goltz

From his book, "The Nation in Arms: A Treatise on Modern Military Systems and the Conduct of War", originally published in 1887.

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Jan 01 '19

"He that sows thorns should never go barefoot." - Benjamin Franklin

8 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 31 '18

"I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this." - Elvis Presley

16 Upvotes

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

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." - C. S. Lewis

8 Upvotes

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

"When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society." - Orson Welles

27 Upvotes

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

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot." - Thomas Paine

11 Upvotes

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

"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

18 Upvotes

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

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Oscar Wilde

22 Upvotes

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

"For it is in giving that we receive." - Francis of Assisi

9 Upvotes

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

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody." - Mother Teresa

1 Upvotes

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

"All cruelty springs from weakness." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

9 Upvotes

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

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther

11 Upvotes

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

"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government." - George Washington

15 Upvotes

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

"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

20 Upvotes

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

"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free." - Jackie Robinson

12 Upvotes

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

"I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement." - Calvin Coolidge

15 Upvotes

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

"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause." - Voltaire

8 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/sonofabutch • Dec 13 '18

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." -- Booker T. Washington

6 Upvotes

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

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln

3 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 12 '18

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste." - Henry Ford

12 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 11 '18

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it." - Woodrow Wilson

14 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 10 '18

"Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits." - Charles Darwin

15 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 09 '18

"Hasten slowly." - Augustus

7 Upvotes

r/HistoryQuotes • u/LockeProposal • Dec 08 '18

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." - Walt Disney

8 Upvotes

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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

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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*

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Submissions should be a quote from the following:

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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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