History Quotes

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

The Thames is liquid history.

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.