History Quotes

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

I am responsible only to God and history.

In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.