History Quotes

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It's up to history to judge.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.