History Quotes

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.