History Quotes

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!

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

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.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

America has always imported history.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.