Joseph Goebbels Quotes

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

Statesmen are judged by history beyond contemporary debates.

We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

History passes the final judgment.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

It's up to history to judge.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

History will judge me... I shall remain silent.

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

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

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

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

We have done the right thing and history will be the test of that.

We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.

We are responsible for the history of the future.

I do not want to be recorded in history as the man who bequeathed a tyranny.

I do not know whether I have helped or harmed my fellow citizens. History can probably be the only judge of that.

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but History's purchased page to call them great?