History Quotes

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Ideas shape the course of history.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

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.

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.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.