History Quotes

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

Freedom has no history.

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I'm sick of making bloody history.

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

It's just a great school and they have a history of developing big men. Georgetown is definitely a great option for me.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Failure is impossible.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

History is a relay of revolutions.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.