History Quotes

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.