Famous Quotes
- The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
- Tom Hayden on History
- The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
- Shimon Peres on History
- The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
- Irving R. Kaufman on History
- The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
- Alton Brown on History
- The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
- Carl T. Rowan on History
- The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
- Robert Menzies on History
- The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
- Harold Wilson on History
- The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
- Otto Von Bismarck on History
- The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
- Alfred A. Montapert on History
- The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
- Woodrow Wilson on History
- The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
- Harry S. Truman on History
- The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- George Washington on History
- The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
- Bertrand Russell on History
- The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
- Jonathan Sacks on History
- The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
- Jon Meacham on History
- The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
- King Abdullah II on History
- The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
- Nikita Khrushchev on History
- The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
- Arthur Henderson on History
- The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on History
- The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
- Ralph Nader on History
- The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton on History
- The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
- Ho Chi Minh on History
- The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.
- Tom Osborne on History
- The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
- David Herbert Lawrence on History
- The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
- Noam Chomsky on History
- The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
- Kim Il-sung on History
- The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
- A. Whitney Brown on History
- The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
- Jon Meacham on History
- The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- Peter Berger on History
- The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
- Jessamyn West on History
- The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
- Vladimir Putin on History
- The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
- Aleister Crowley on History
- The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
- Mao Zedong on History
- The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on History
- The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
- Albert J. Nock on History
- The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
- Muhammad Iqbal on History
- The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.
- Nancy Pelosi on History
- The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
- Noam Chomsky on History
- The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
- David Attenborough on History
- The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on History
- The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
- Golda Meir on History
- The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
- Lance Morrow on History
- The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
- Joseph Brodsky on History
- The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on History
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
- Lord Acton on History
- The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
- Ambrose Bierce on History
- The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
- Mitt Romney on History
- The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
- Erica Jong on History
- The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
- Terry Eagleton on History
- The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
- Daniel Craig on History
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