History Quotes

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.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

History is a vast early warning system.

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

I do consider myself part of black history.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.