Famous Quotes
- Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
- Joe Barton on History
- Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
- Steve King on History
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
- James Nasmyth on History
- Our history is not our destiny.
- Alan Cohen on History
- Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
- Stockwell Day on History
- Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- Gustave Flaubert on History
- Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.
- Camille Paglia on History
- Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
- Rush Limbaugh on History
- Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
- Lech Walesa on History
- Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
- Haile Selassie on History
- Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.
- Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.
- Ron Fournier on History
- Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
- Liev Schreiber on History
- Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
- Jon Meacham on History
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- Honore De Balzac on History
- Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
- James K. Polk on History
- Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
- People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
- James A. Baldwin on History
- People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
- Caroline Kennedy on History
- People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
- Dan Quayle on History
- People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on History
- Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
- Paul Harris on History
- Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
- Carl Sagan on History
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.
- Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
- John Quincy Adams on History
- President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
- Mitt Romney on History
- President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
- Newt Gingrich on History
- Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on History
- Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
- Alphonse De Lamartine on History
- Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
- Mason Cooley on History
- Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- Benjamin Disraeli on History
- Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
- Angela Carter on History
- Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair on History
- Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
- Christopher Hitchens on History
- Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
- Jonathan Sacks on History
- Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
- Bertrand Russell on History
- Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
- Jon Meacham on History
- Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
- David M. Shoup on History
- Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
- Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
- Norman Mailer on History
- Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
- Jackson Browne on History
- Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
- John Podhoretz on History
- Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
- George Eliot on History
- Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
- Conrad Black on History
- Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
- Anwar Sadat on History
- Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
- John Polkinghorne on History
- Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.
- Sprague Grayden on History
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