6,230 Quotes About History

When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past.

This is a team that wants to leave its mark on the program and make significant additions to the history of Rosary softball.

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.