Famous Quotes

"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

Dean Acheson 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 Dean Acheson

• "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."

• "No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

• "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."

• "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

• "The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."