5 Henry Kissinger Quotes on History

Henry Kissinger quotes on history

16. As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the difference personalities make.

21. For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

23. History knows no resting place and no plateaus.

34. It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

50. The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.