Harry S. Truman on history

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

This is a Christian nation.

The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he’s not.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Adolf Hitler1889–1945

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

Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856), p. 88