“History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.” HandsHurtHistoryGenerationsOffersBonesGrandchildrenPosterityMarrowPrevious Generations Author:Nikolay Chernyshevsky
“History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.” GivingSocialHistoryEventsStudentsOffersMercyEldersVicarious Author:Hilary Mantel
“Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.” PeopleGovernmentNationsPrinciplesTeachHistoryTeachingConditionsInvolvedPeriodsCircumstancesOffersConnectedConsiderationPeculiarRulersStatesmenExhibits Book:Reading Hegel: The Introductions Source: Reading Hegel: The Introductions
“If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.” IfsDoeHistoryKnowingComfortOffersSolutionsObviousNothing New Author:Eamon Duffy
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” WarHistorySacrificeBloodMilitaryTearsHard WorkOffersDeterminationConservativeMinistersGreat MenHistorianSweatWorld War IiWorld War IFinestToilPrime MinisterHistoricWorld HistoryWwiiWorld War 2Second World WarSweatingInspirational MilitaryWorld War 1Military HistoryGreat DeterminationDarkest HourGreat MilitarySweat And TearsGreat VictoryToilingGreatest VictoryBlood Sweat And TearsMisquotingWar VictoryFinest HourHistorical MilitaryPearl Harbor DayGreatest GenerationBlood And SweatTears Of BloodBattle Of Britain Author:Winston Churchill
“Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.” PeopleWorldCountryHopePovertyHistoryOffersProsperityBillionsDevelopingRealisticPullingWorld HistorySustainingDeveloping CountriesDeveloped Country Author:Kofi Annan