History Quotes
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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History simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson.
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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When I look back, some of the greatest people in the history of the world have created things where paths have never been with such resiliency.
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I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.
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It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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I'll leave here with my head held high and with confidence that history will judge my time here.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
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In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.
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My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.
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My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
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Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.
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In progressive societies the concentration of wealth may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
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History is an agreed-upon fiction.
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When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.
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The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
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Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
