“Audacity, more audacity, always audacity!”
Georges Danton
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History Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HISTORY
History Quotes
Read the best history quotes on the past, memory and lessons for the future from Cicero, Herodotus, Thucydides, Kalhana, Ibn Khaldun, Lincoln, Nehru and more.
“That ye may tell it to the generation following.”
The Bible (Psalm 48:13)
GenerationsStorytelling
“And this day shall be unto you for a memorial.”
The Bible (Exodus 12:14)
RemembranceTradition
“Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!”
The Bible (Job 19:23)
WritingLegacy
“Write the things which thou hast seen.”
The Bible (Revelation 1:19)
Record KeepingWitness
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
Demosthenes
OpportunityBeginnings
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
Alexander the Great
DeterminationCourage
“Carthage must be destroyed.”
Cato the Elder
Ancient RomeFamous Lines
“There are tears for things, and mortal things touch the mind.”
Virgil
SorrowHumanity
“Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, because they lack a sacred poet.”
Horace
HeroesStorytelling
“Time heals what reason cannot.”
Seneca
TimeHealing
“Out of Africa there is always something new.”
Pliny the Elder
AfricaDiscovery
“For some must watch, while some must sleep: thus runs the world away.”
William Shakespeare
LifeTime
“This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
Voltaire
EmpiresFunny
“Politics is the art of the possible.”
Otto von Bismarck
PoliticsRealism
“I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.”
The Bible (Psalm 119:52)
ComfortMemory
“And there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.”
The Bible (Judges 2:10)
ForgettingGenerations
“Stand a little out of my sunlight.”
Diogenes
Famous LinesContentment
“Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.”
Augustus
Last WordsLife
“In this sign, conquer.”
Emperor Constantine
FaithFamous Lines
“I am the State.”
Louis XIV
PowerMonarchy
“Treat me as a king would treat another king.”
Porus
DignityIndia
“It is better to live one day as a tiger than a hundred years as a sheep.”
Tipu Sultan
CourageIndia
“We will face the enemy's bullets; free we have been, and free we shall remain.”
Chandrashekhar Azad
FreedomIndia
“Every blow on my body will be a nail in the coffin of British rule in India.”
Lala Lajpat Rai
Freedom StruggleIndia