Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, progress, world and/or war:
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
“Its nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but Im bloody close.”
—John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten)
“A President must call on many personssome to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
“Who can wonder that the world is known
So well by man, since himself is one?
The same composure in his form is shewed,
And mans the little image of the God.”
—Marcus Manilius (10 B.C.A.D. 30)
“The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.”
—Winston Churchill (18741965)