Famous quotes by Historians

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Life is to entered upon with courage"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Power, when wielded by abnormal energy, is the most serious of facts"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Things forbidden have a secret charm"

Tacitus, Historian

"There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader"

Tacitus, Historian

"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured"

Tacitus, Historian

"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin"

Tacitus, Historian

"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man"

Tacitus, Historian

"He that fights and runs away, may turn and fight another day; but he that is in battle slain will never rise to fight again"

Tacitus, Historian

"Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons"

Herodotus, Historian

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