A Quote by Martin Luther

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Martin Luther

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Alone History Blood Moves Wheels

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Martin Luther
German - Leader
November 10, 1483 - February 18, 1546

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

Benito Mussolini

We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.

George W. Bush

Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

Wei Jingsheng

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

St. Jerome

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Fernand Braudel

He moves fastest who moves alone.

Milton Friedman

The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

Friedrich Schiller

Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.

Evan Bayh

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

Kevin Young

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Ouida

Blood and death. That moves me.

Ikue Mori

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

Alfred Rosenberg

I like a lot of wheels. If I could have eight wheels, I would.

Jon Stewart

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.