Famous Quotes
- The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
- Kathryn Bigelow on History
- The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
- Jacques Chirac on History
- The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
- Jean Piaget on History
- The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
- Genevieve Gorder on History
- The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
- George W. Bush on History
- The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- Herman Cain on History
- The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
- Abraham Lincoln on History
- The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
- George McGovern on History
- The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
- Jon Meacham on History
- The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
- Barbara Tuchman on History
- The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
- George Will on History
- The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
- Rush Limbaugh on History
- The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
- Eric Hoffer on History
- The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.
- Tony Kushner on History
- The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on History
- The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
- The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
- Fareed Zakaria on History
- The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
- The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
- Richard M. Nixon on History
- The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
- Arthur C. Clarke on History
- The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
- George Eliot on History
- The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
- Vladimir Lenin on History
- The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
- The history of art is the history of revivals.
- Samuel Butler on History
- The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
- Edwin Powell Hubble on History
- The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.
- Kenneth Scott Latourette on History
- The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on History
- The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
- Woodrow Wilson on History
- The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
- Simon Wiesenthal on History
- The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
- Luigi Pirandello on History
- The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
- Franz Kafka on History
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- Virginia Woolf on History
- The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
- Paul Gauguin on History
- The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
- Giacomo Casanova on History
- The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
- Novak Djokovic on History
- The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
- Karl Jaspers on History
- The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
- William James on History
- The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
- Emma Goldman on History
- The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
- Benito Mussolini on History
- The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
- Carroll Quigley on History
- The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
- Arthur Smith on History
- The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on History
- The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
- Samuel Butler on History
- The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
- Friedrich Schiller on History
- The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on History
- The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
- Paul Valery on History
- The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
- Ron Chernow on History
- The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
- Dan Quayle on History
- The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
- Horatio Alger on History
- The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
- Dave Barry on History
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