History Quote Generator

“ Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. ”

~William Hague

“ Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ”

~Wole Soyinka

“ For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. ”

~Dennis Prager

“ I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. ”

~Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“ After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ”

~Bob Woodward

“ Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. ”

~Dick Gregory