Famous Quotes

"It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws."

Vladimir Lenin 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 Vladimir Lenin

• "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."

• "The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death."

• "When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism."

• "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

• "When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state."