History Quotes

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

The Thames is liquid history.

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.

Strip malls are history.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.