Historical Legacy Quotes

History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us.

One duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

An army took on the Union; an army lost. That nation, the Confederate States, lost. And if - that flag - in terms of publicly or state-sponsored things, or local or county or city-sponsored things - should be forever wiped from the memory, because that side lost.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. This is what makes the trade of historian so attractive.

Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

Happy is the nation without a history.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.

A lot of people may not read the history of their own country, but they carry on memories transmitted by previous generations. They're trying to achieve something, [they] have their mission and anger -- all this is fed by past experience of history.

I couldn't trash [Adolf] Hitler enough. Poor bastards, they make all these contributions to the automotive industry, aeronautics, space - but you pick one wrong guy and it's all out the window. They're never gonna live that one down.

We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.