History Quotes

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

I'm a history dork and a sci-fi dork.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

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.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.