r/HistoryQuotes

904 archived posts · Mar 2017 – Nov 2025

The best quotes from historical figures and their biographers!

r/HistoryQuotes

Home to the best quotes from historical figures and the historians who write about them!

Created Mar 31, 2017

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#Welcome to History Quotes!

Here, we post the most memorable, obscure, and quotable words from history. History of any culture and era is welcome here.

Ultimately, the purpose of HistoryQuotes is to inspire and inform, but we encourage any academic discussion that may be the result of a submission. We heavily encourage other fans of history to post their own content - the more the better!

quo·ta·tion

ˌkwōˈtāSH(ə)n/

noun

a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker.

"a quotation from Mark Twain*

#Rules:

#Rule 1: All submitted content must be a quotation that is historical in some way.

Submissions should be a quote from the following:

Historical publications/documents/literature, direct quotes from historical figures, quotes from historians or historical works about an event/figure/period of history. Personal quotations are disallowed.

#Rule 2: Submissions should be able to hold up to verification.

Verification is not required for every submission, but if it can be proven that a submission is falsely attributed, or is fabricated in any way, it will be subject to removal.

#Rule 3: Don't break Reddit's rules.

Violations of the global user agreement will not be tolerated.

#Rule 4: Be civil.

Spamming, personal attacks upon, or harassment of a user will not be tolerated. This also applies to hate speech.

#Rule 5: No modern politics.

Submissions & comments that are overtly political in regards to modern-day politics will be subject to removal at moderator discretion; political topics are only acceptable if discussed in a historical context.

#Rule 6: No pseudo-history or holocaust denial.

The merits of these things are best discussed elsewhere and are inappropriate material for the sub. This is not the place to "wake up the sheeple."

#Rule 7: Follow the 20 year rule.

We consider an event to be appropriately historical if it happened 20 years or more in the past. Anything taking place in the last 20 years will be removed. This is similar to rule 1 in that we do not allow contemporary politics and events. However, quotations from historical publications that were published more recently are allowed, so long as the subject material adheres to the 20 year standard.

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