Albert Bushnell Hart Quotes

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

A great man represents a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists of his being there.

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

In historical events great men — so-called — are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity.

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

He will not be a speaker mentioned much in history.

You are the only man in history to every use the Presidency as a stepping stone to greatness.

Statesmen are judged by history beyond contemporary debates.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

Fifty years from now there will be statues of me all over Germany

A Politician is never remembered for how he started. He is remembered for how he finished.

Things that are truly great will be timeless.

I'd like to be remembered as the greatest ever.

This acting is going to leave my stain. Not just my mark, because you can wipe a mark off. But a stain: it's going to take a whole lot to get that out, and that's how I'm going to leave my stain on this world.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians.

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.

I assume, gladly, that in the allocation to America of remarkable leaders like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, the Lord was just as careful. After all, if you've got only one Abraham Lincoln, you'd better put him in that point in history when he's most needed-much as some of us might like to have him now.

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

The men who make history have not time to write it.