History Quotes

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

I think you can learn from history.

These terrorist actions, prepared in cold blood, against the people, the society and the institutions of the United States are unprecedented in history.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.