Famous Quotes

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."

Alexis de Tocqueville on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville

• "Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves."

• "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

• "The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."

• "Life is to be entered upon with courage."

• "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."