History Quotes

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

History's a resource.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

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.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.