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There are many American History quotes made famous by remarkable men and women who made history special with their unsurpassed words of wisdom. The quotes below are examples of the famous quotes these historical figures said enabling their words to live on longer than they ever could have thought possible.
President John Quincy Adams said this, “My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right”.
Entrepreneur and great businessman Andrew Carnegie once said, “The man who dies rich…dies disgraced” which is one of the reasons he gave away so much to build libraries across the United States and supported so many great institutions. However, he did die rich.
President Theodore Roosevelt said, “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life”.
President Woodrow Wilson said, “There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight”. He also said, “The world must be made safe for democracy”.
Writer Mark Twain said, “Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run”. This was a quote his work A Curious Dream.
Mark Twain also said this, “Familiarity breeds contempt and children”. He also said,
“History doesn’t repeat itself—at best it sometimes rhymes”.
An unknown author of this quote said it best, “History has taught us we do not learn anything from history”.
William Shakespeare said, “There is a history in all men’s lives”.
President Harry Truman said, “The only thing new in this world is the history that you don’t know”.
Pastor Martin Luther King once said, “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people”.
Robert Kennedy said, “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope”. Spoken like a Kennedy, one who unfortunately had his life cut short by the position and power of his family’s legacy.
American History has shown, great quotes can live on and teach us; but the lessons are in what we are only willing to learn.
