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Your Quotes for 18 August 2005 - History

On this day in 1883 Pope Leo XIII opened the Vatican archives to scholars outside the Roman Catholic church for the first time, revealing unique documents, artifacts, and great works of art that had been hidden from view for centuries. In his announcement he said, "The first law of history is not to dare to utter falsehood; the second is not to fear to speak the truth."

It is the minority that has stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
     - John B. Gough

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
     - Justice Abe Fortas

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
     - Miguel de Cervantes, 1547 - 1616

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
     - Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
     - Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
     - Woody Allen

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