History Quotes

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.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

History passes the final judgment.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

History provides no precise guidelines.

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.