Quote of the Week - December 1 - 7
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
Fustel de Coulanges - Historian
Fustel de Coulanges - Historian
Quote of the Week - November 24 - 30
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow - Lawyer
Clarence Darrow - Lawyer
Quote of the Week - November 17 - 23
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
John Barth - Novelist
John Barth - Novelist
Quote of the Week - November 10 - 16
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Quote of the Week - November 3 - 9
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin - United States Congressman
Jeannette Rankin - United States Congressman
Quote of the Week - October 27 - November 2
George Washington's brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country.
George Carlin - Comedian
George Carlin - Comedian
Quote of the Week - October 20 - 26
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
Will and Ariel Durant
Quote of the Week - October 13 - 19
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Quote of the Week - October 6 - 12
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Quote of the Week - September 29 - October 5
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar’s smile from the scorn of free men.
Jose Marti - Cuban Revolutionary and Poet
Jose Marti - Cuban Revolutionary and Poet
Quote of the Week - September 22 - 28
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
Quote of the Week - September 15 - 21
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon - Historian
Edward Gibbon - Historian
Quote of the Summer - June 30 - September 14
I am definitely going to take a course on time management - just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
Louis Boone - Academic Author
Louis Boone - Academic Author
Quote of the Week - June 23 - June 29
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell - Author and Journalist
George Orwell - Author and Journalist
Quote of the Week - June 16 - 22
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George Washington
George Washington
Quote of the Week June 9 - 15
History can be well written only in a free country.
Voltaire
Voltaire
Quote of the Week May 5 - 11
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
Emiliano Zapata
Quote of the Week April 28 - May 4
If you don't know where you come from, you don't know where you are.
James Burke
James Burke
Quote of the Week April 21 - 27
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Quote of the Week April 14-20
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Quote of the Week April 7-13
Time's glory is to calm contending kings, to unmask falsehood, and to bring truth to light.
Oedipus - Character in the play Oedipus The King or Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Oedipus - Character in the play Oedipus The King or Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Quote of the Week March 31 - April 6
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Quote of the Week - March 24 - 30
I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx - Comedian, Actor
Groucho Marx - Comedian, Actor
Quote of the Week - March 17-23
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy - Author
Leo Tolstoy - Author
Quote of the Week - March 10 -16
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
Quote of the Week - March 3-9
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Nancy Willard - Author and Poet
Nancy Willard - Author and Poet
Quote of the Week - February 24 - March 2
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
Quote of the Week - February 17 - 23
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
Bruce Coville - American Author
Bruce Coville - American Author
Quote of the Week - February 10 - 16
A People without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
Sioux Proverb - (Sent in by Chaunce)
The picture is of Sioux Chief Crazy Horse.
Sioux Proverb - (Sent in by Chaunce)
The picture is of Sioux Chief Crazy Horse.
Quote of the Week - February 3 - 9
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Quote of the Week - January 27 - February 2
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon - American Poet, Band Manager, Writer
Ambrose Redmoon - American Poet, Band Manager, Writer
Quote of the Week December 16 - 22
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
"No me dejen morir así, digan que dije algo"
Pancho Villa - (These are the reported last words of Pancho Villa, although there is some question as he was assassinated)
"No me dejen morir así, digan que dije algo"
Pancho Villa - (These are the reported last words of Pancho Villa, although there is some question as he was assassinated)
Quote of the Week December 9 - 15
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Quote of the Week December 2 - 8
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote of the Week November 25 - December 1
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
Quote of the Week November 18 - 24
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Quote of the Week November 11 - 17
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Jose Narosky
Jose Narosky
Quote of the Week - November 4 - 10
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky - Philosopher
Noam Chomsky - Philosopher
Quote of the Week- October 28 - November 3
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
Woody Hayes - Ohio State football coach
Woody Hayes - Ohio State football coach
Quote of the Week - October 21 - 27
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Socrates
Quote of the Week - October 14 - 20
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban - Israeli Diplomat
Abba Eban - Israeli Diplomat
Quote of the Week - October 7 - 13
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
Quote of the Week - September 30 - October 6
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
Catherine "The Great" Romanov - Empress of Russia (1762-1796)
Catherine "The Great" Romanov - Empress of Russia (1762-1796)
Quote of the Week - September 23 - 29
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche - Philosopher
Quote of the Week - September 16-22
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
General Douglas MacArthur
General Douglas MacArthur
Quote of the Week - August 5 -11
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Quote of the Week - July 29 - August 4
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
Jesse Owens - Olympian and Ohio State Alumni
Jesse Owens - Olympian and Ohio State Alumni
Quote of the Week - July 22 -28
I have conquered and empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov "Peter the Great" - Russian Czar
Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov "Peter the Great" - Russian Czar
Quote of the Week - July 15 - July 21
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.
Voltaire - Philosophe (Philosopher)
Voltaire - Philosophe (Philosopher)
Quote of the Week - July 8 - July 14
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Mae Jemison - Astronaut
Mae Jemison - Astronaut
Quote of the Week - July 1 - July 7
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Quote of the Week- June 24 - June 30
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David Thoreau - American Poet and Author among many other titles and pursuits.
Henry David Thoreau - American Poet and Author among many other titles and pursuits.
Quote of the Week - June17 - 23
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Quote of the Week - June 10 -June 16
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Quote of the Week - June 3 - June 9
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Quote of the Week - May 27 - June 2
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Quote of the Week - May 20-26
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller - American Industrialist
John D. Rockefeller - American Industrialist
Quote of the Week - May 13 - 19
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction, but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
Katharine Anthony - American Biographer and Educator
Katharine Anthony - American Biographer and Educator
Quote of the Week - May 6-12
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
Thomas Babington Macaulay - British Poet, Politician and Historian
Thomas Babington Macaulay - British Poet, Politician and Historian
Quote of the Week - April 29 - May 5
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee– British Historian
Arnold J. Toynbee– British Historian
Quote of the Week - April 22-28
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie I - Recommended by Mireya Casillas World History B
Haile Selassie I - Recommended by Mireya Casillas World History B
Quote of the Week - April 15-21
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow– American Journalist
Edward R. Murrow– American Journalist
Quote of the Week - April 8-14
“The most abusive words that I hear are 'never again,' ... Have we learned from history? I do not know.”
Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabagina
Quote of the Week - April 1-7
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Evita Peron
Evita Peron
Quote of the Week - March 25-31
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quote of the Week - March 18-24
If there is no struggle, there is no progress
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Quote of the Week - March 11-17
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Quote of the Week - March 4 - 10
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Quote of the Week - February 26 - March 3
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Quote of the Week - February 19 - 25
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Quote of the Week - February 12-18
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Quote of the Week - February 5 - 11
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
Quote of the Week - January 29 - February 4
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
Victor Cousin
French Philosopher
Victor Cousin
French Philosopher
Quote of the Week - January 22-28
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi
Quote of the Week - January 15-21
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
Quote of the Week - January 8-14
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt