History Quotes

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

Our history is not our destiny.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

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.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.