- A chronicle is very different from history proper.
- Howard Nemerov on History
- A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
- William F. Buckley, Jr. on History
- A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
- Russell Baker on History
- A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'
- Tony Kushner on History
- A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
- Walter Scott on History
- A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
- Norman Cousins on History
- A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
- Norman Cousins on History
- A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on History
- A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
- David Hume on History
- A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
- Jawaharlal Nehru on History
- A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
- Marcus Garvey on History
- A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
- George S. Patton on History
- A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
- Mahatma Gandhi on History
- A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
- Grandma Moses on History
- A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
- John Maynard Keynes on History
- A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
- Grover Cleveland on History
- A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
- Washington Irving on History
- A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
- Margaret Thatcher on History
- A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
- Eliot Spitzer on History
- Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.
- Tony Kushner on History
- After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
- Condoleezza Rice on History
- After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
- Bob Woodward on History
- After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
- David Cameron on History
- All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
- Leslie Fiedler on History
- All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
- Friedrich Engels on History
- All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
- Alice Walker on History
- All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
- Ernest Renan on History
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Honore De Balzac on History
- All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.
- John Baldacci on History
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
- Neil Armstrong on History
- All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
- Camille Paglia on History
- All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
- Barbara Kruger on History
- All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
- All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- Charles A. Beard on History
- All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
- Anita Roddick on History
- All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.
- Victor Cousin on History
- Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
- James K. Polk on History
- America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
- Henry Louis Gates on History
- America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
- Georges Clemenceau on History
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
- James A. Baldwin on History
- American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
- Camille Paglia on History
- Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
- George W. Bush on History
- Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.
- Marco Rubio on History
- Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
- George S. Patton on History
- Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
- Ilka Chase on History
- Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
- Mahatma Gandhi on History
- An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
- William Manchester on History
- And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
- Julien Benda on History
- And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.
- Marco Rubio on History
- And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
- Lord Acton on History
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