History Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.