Hermann Goering Quotes

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

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

History passes the final judgment.

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.

If there is not the occasion, you don't get the great statesmen. If Lincoln had lived in peacetime, you would not know his name today.

It is very difficult to capture over the centuries, the charisma of an individual.

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

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.

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

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

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

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

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.

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.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

This is the American moment in world history and one for which we shall ever be judged.

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

Young man, I have lived in this house many years and have seen the occupants of the White House across the square come and go, and nothing you minor officials or the occupant of that house can do will affect the history of the world for long.

Statesmen are judged by history beyond contemporary debates.

We are responsible for the history of the future.