Famous Quotes

"If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization."

Ludwig von Mises 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 Ludwig von Mises

• "Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation."

• "Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace."

• "Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly."

• "If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace."

• "Peace and not war is the father of all things."