History Quotes

Happy is the nation without a history.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Ideas shape the course of history.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.