History Quotes

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.