Famous Quotes
- My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
- William Jennings Bryan on History
- My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
- Thomas Jefferson on History
- My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
- Julie Andrews on History
- Natural history is not about producing fables.
- David Attenborough on History
- Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
- Barbara Ehrenreich on History
- Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on History
- Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
- Jefferson Davis on History
- Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
- C. Wright Mills on History
- Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
- Marge Piercy on History
- Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.
- Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
- Cecil Beaton on History
- Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
- Theodore Roosevelt on History
- Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on History
- Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
- Chinua Achebe on History
- Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
- John Podhoretz on History
- Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
- Harry S. Truman on History
- Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
- Conrad Black on History
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
- Hannah Arendt on History
- No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
- Phyllis Schlafly on History
- No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.
- Alan Dershowitz on History
- No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
- Richard M. Nixon on History
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- Thomas Carlyle on History
- No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
- Herbert Hoover on History
- No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
- P. J. O'Rourke on History
- No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
- William Hazlitt on History
- No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
- Ellen Glasgow on History
- No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
- Dean Acheson on History
- No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
- Alfred North Whitehead on History
- Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on History
- Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
- George W. Bush on History
- Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
- Elie Wiesel on History
- Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
- Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
- David Brinkley on History
- Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
- John Podhoretz on History
- Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
- George Washington on History
- Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
- Robert Hall on History
- Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
- Bernie Sanders on History
- Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
- John Polkinghorne on History
- Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
- Arnold J. Toynbee on History
- Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
- Richard M. Nixon on History
- One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
- Robert A. Heinlein on History
- One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.
- James Buchan on History
- One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
- P. J. O'Rourke on History
- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant on History
- One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
- Albert Schweitzer on History
- One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
- William O. Douglas on History
- Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
- Kofi Annan on History
- Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
- Thomas Friedman on History
- Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
- Jerry Saltz on History
- Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
- Sloane Crosley on History
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