History Quotes

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

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

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

I did not come to NASA to make history.