History Quotes
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The siren song of pluralism will always drown out the sobering voice of history.
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This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
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The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
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In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything than no people would ever keep it! Freedom has a high price, and men must ever struggle to preserve it.
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Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
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History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
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A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.
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France has done more for even English history than England has.
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History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
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Words are the weights which hold our history in place.
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Bitcoin is probably the most portable money in the history of the world. I can download any amount onto a thumb drive and walk across any border without any problems. Or, I could commit to memory a line of code that I can then input into the network and save or spend Bitcoins.
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
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There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
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Policies are key and understanding what history shows us is as pivotal as ever.
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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
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We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
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The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.
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History is sympathetic to its authors.
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There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.
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I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
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Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.
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This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'
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History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.
