History Quotes

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.