History Quotes

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

History is everything that has ever happened.

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.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.