- Failure is impossible.
- Susan B. Anthony on History
- Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
- Charles Henry Parkhurst on History
- Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
- Benito Mussolini on History
- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
- Louis D. Brandeis on History
- Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
- James A. Garfield on History
- Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
- Robert Kennedy on History
- Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.
- Michael Haneke on History
- Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
- Christopher Columbus on History
- For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
- Conrad Black on History
- For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
- Dennis Prager on History
- For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
- Michael Pollan on History
- For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
- Nicolaus Copernicus on History
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf on History
- For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
- Harry Browne on History
- For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
- For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill on History
- For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
- Louis L'Amour on History
- For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
- Bill Moyers on History
- For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
- Hubert H. Humphrey on History
- For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead on History
- France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
- Francois Mitterrand on History
- France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
- Johnny Depp on History
- Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
- Augustine Birrell on History
- From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.
- Jennifer Granholm on History
- From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.
- David Cameron on History
- From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
- Jon Meacham on History
- From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
- Umberto Eco on History
- From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.
- Marco Rubio on History
- From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
- Aldous Huxley on History
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