Top 4 David Von Drehle Quotes (2026 Update)

David Von Drehle Quote: “History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.”

1. “History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.”

2. “The young immigrants in the garment factories, alight with a spirit of progress, impatient with the weight of tradition, hungry for improvement in a new land and a new century, organized themselves to demand a more fair and humane society.”

— David Von Drehle

3. “What Marcus Aurelius understood is that all of us are slaves in certain respects, even the emperor of Rome. We are slaves to time and chance; we are indentured to fate. “Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own,” he wrote in his Meditations. In another gem, he observed that “it never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

— David Von Drehle

4. “The lesson, so simple yet so difficult, is that life can be savored even though it contains hardship, disappointment, loss, and even brutality. The choice to see its beauty is available to us at every moment.”

— David Von Drehle

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