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- A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
- In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America. . .
- Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
- Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense (1946)
- History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
- Mark Yost
- History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love (1972)
- There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
- George Sarton, History of Science
- I am responsible only to God and history.
- Francisco Franco
- It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case."
- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- Monty Python's usual schoolboy humour is here let loose on a period of history appropriately familiar to every schoolboy in the West, and a faith which could be shaken by such good-humoured ribaldry would be a very precarious faith indeed.
- The British Board Of Film Censors, in their report on _Life of Brian_
- In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.
- Farnsworth Crowder
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