• Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. – Benito Mussolini
• On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. – Alfred de Vigny
• There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. – Coretta Scott King
• We are now in the Me Decade – seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. – Tom Wolfe
• The Supreme Court’s only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. – Irving R. Kaufman
• One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. – Albert Schweitzer
• The notion of ‘history from below’ hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s. – Robert Darnton
• 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. – Samuel E. Morison
• For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier. – Stacy Schiff
• Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! – Susan B. Anthony
• I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. – Barack Obama
• Never in our country’s history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. – Jo Bonner
• Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history? – Gary North
• You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise. – Maya Angelou
• If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out. – Temple Grandin
• 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. – Paul Simon

• Black history is American history. – Morgan Freeman
• I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. – Martin Scorsese
• God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended. – David Wilkerson
• Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. – Octavio Paz
• You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job. – Richard M. Nixon
• Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves. – Lion Feuchtwanger
• History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? – Jon Meacham
• My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in – housing, all of those things. – Patricia Schroeder
• America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way. – Carrie P. Meek
• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim. – Queen Elizabeth II
• A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. – John Maynard Keynes
• History is a vision of God’s creation on the move. – Arnold J. Toynbee
• The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. – Aldous Huxley
• I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. – Queen Elizabeth II
• 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. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present. – Joan Rivers
• The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a ‘minority group,’ which made life much easier. – Edmund White
• If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact. – Jurgen Habermas
• History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good. – Samantha Power
• The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. – James Mark Baldwin
• It’s a very good historical book about history. – Dan Quayle
• History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all. – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
• I did not come to NASA to make history. – Sally Ride
• Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. – Cat Stevens
• Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. – Thomas Sowell
• Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. – Buchi Emecheta
• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan. – Sachin Tendulkar
• For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. – Virginia Woolf
• It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. – Vladimir Lenin
• As people get more desperate, history suggests that they’re not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They’re gonna turn on each other. – Alan Moore
• History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. – Lord Acton
• The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
• You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats
• I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. – Richard M. Nixon
• There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it. – Camilo Jose Cela
• Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history. – Fred Willard
• History is a set of lies agreed upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte
• Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. – Adam Weishaupt
• At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. – F. L. Lucas
• Fashion is not just about trends. It’s about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the ’80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. – Daphne Guinness
• India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language to be in touch. Then India’s industrial situation is similar to us. Both have big companies but are dominated by small and medium-sized companies. It is extremely important for both to do joint ventures. – Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

• I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. – Pablo Picasso
• If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again. – Terry Venables
• Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. – Marge Piercy
• I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. – John Henrik Clarke
• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. – Charles Babbage
• A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona. – Rabih Alameddine
• The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York. – Ron Chernow
• History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. – Konrad Adenauer
• Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. – Earl Browder
• When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history. – Joe Torre
• What is history but a fable agreed upon? – Napoleon Bonaparte
• You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books. – John Glenn
• Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. – Ray Manzarek
• 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. – Louis L’Amour
• I’ve always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans – the original Americans. – Beau Bridges
• I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. – Sidney Sheldon
• The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. – Richard M. Nixon
• I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. – Morgan Freeman
• Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? – Carl Jung
• Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. – James K. Polk
• Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. – Tariq Ramadan
• History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. – Wole Soyinka
• Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. – Haile Selassie
• Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned – it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum. – Ban Ki-moon
• History shows that there are no invincible armies. – Joseph Stalin
• I don’t want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed. – Eduard Shevardnadze
• 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. – Bertrand Russell
• History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. – Joseph Conrad

• If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
• He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. – Lech Walesa
• History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. – B. R. Ambedkar
• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. – Abba Eban
• In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation. – Todd Tiahrt
• Legend remains victorious in spite of history. – Sarah Bernhardt
• In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren’t absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources. – Victor Davis Hanson
• Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. – Charles Dudley Warner
• Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. – C. Wright Mills
• Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot
• India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. – Anita Desai
• The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. – Derek Walcott
• Then I despair… I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. – Andre Malraux
• History is a vast early warning system. – Norman Cousins
• We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. – John F. Kennedy
• History is more or less bunk. – Henry Ford
• I let the American people down. – Richard M. Nixon
• History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. – John le Carre
• Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country’s history and mindful of their civic responsibilities. – George Nethercutt
• We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand
• There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. – William Halsey
• The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. – Peter L. Berger
• Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri
• To people who remember JFK’s assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father’s coffin. – Michael Beschloss
• It’s not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium. – Simon Schama
• My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history. – William Banting
• Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. – Alphonse de Lamartine
• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle
• The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold. – Neil Peart
• I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. – Emilia Fox

• History should be written as philosophy. – Voltaire
• You have to look at history as an evolution of society. – Jean Chretien
• In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn’t have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn’t use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. – David Attenborough
• The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history. – Todd Akin
• The question I’m always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask. – Salman Rushdie
• The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history. – Sue Kelly
• I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. – Friedrich August von Hayek
• Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it’s based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. – Alton Brown
• The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it’s a joke, a blot on American history. – Frank Waters
• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. – C. S. Lewis
• The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. – Noam Chomsky
• Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society? – Rose George
• All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. – Richard Brautigan
• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. – Tony Blair
• Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let’s continue to move forward. – Jack Layton
• We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny. – Oscar de la Renta
• History proves that the white man is a devil. – Malcolm X
• Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. – Phyllis George
• In Thailand’s history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed. – Bhumibol Adulyadej
• History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. – Malcolm X
• A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters. – Oliver Kahn
• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. – Haile Selassie
• I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash. – Brendan Fraser
• When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There’s the epicness of it all. – Jim Lee
• This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. – John Perkins
• I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government. – Olivia De Havilland
• Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. – Noam Chomsky
• The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century. – Dan Quayle

• I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom. – Will Self
• If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
• If I’m pushed, I’d also have to admit I don’t like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. ‘No thanks, I’m allergic.’ Why not just say ‘No thanks’? I wasn’t asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that’s all. – Jack Dee
• Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. – Maya Angelou
• The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history’s worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe. – Linda Chavez
• It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. – Corazon Aquino
• I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. – Thomas Babington Macaulay
• We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page. – Barack Obama
• Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana
• One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. – Peace Pilgrim
• In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard. – Susanna Kearsley
• 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. – Eric C. Anderson
• At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. – Roh Moo-hyun
• Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand. – George Takei
• Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. – John Hersey
• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. – Neil Armstrong
• History is not hatred. – Malcolm X
• What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos. – Anselm Kiefer
• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. – Ha-Joon Chang
• Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. – Eddie Bernice Johnson
• The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. – Max Lerner
• Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. – Doris Kearns Goodwin
• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley
• Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. – Winston Churchill
• Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. – Mao Zedong
• It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. – Karl Marx
• History is Philosophy teaching by example. – Thucydides
• Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. – C. S. Lewis
• The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. – Chuck Hagel
• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don’t believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you’re likely to have issues. – Larry Page
• I’m somewhat horrified because I don’t think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don’t’ even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don’t know where one place is from another. – Joan Sutherland
• I don’t think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse. – William Gibson
• Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history. – Samuel E. Morison

• I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. – Charles de Gaulle
• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. – Mahatma Gandhi
• I live off a motto that says, ‘yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery’. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I’ll be tomorrow, that’s where I’ll be. – Vanilla Ice
• For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love. – Adolfo Perez Esquivel
• I’ve been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what’s going to happen next because it’s cyclical, everything repeats in general. – Emilie Autumn
• Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. – Aristotle
• Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema. – Dirk Benedict
• History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history. – Clarence Darrow
• I came, I saw, I conquered. – Julius Caesar
• The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. – Lech Walesa
• I don’t want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn’t pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. – Rahm Emanuel
• To investigate the history of man’s development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils. – Richard Leakey
• Let’s be very honest about what this is about. It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. – Janeane Garofalo
• The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives. – Mary Fallin
• The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. – Robert Menzies
• The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it’s a very different movie. – Casey Affleck
• History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power – bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community. – Umberto Eco
• I’m playing dark history. It’s beyond black. I’m dealing with the dark things of the cosmos. – Sun Ra
• I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. – Wendell Berry
• The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States. – Carlos Fuentes
• How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire. – Simon Greenleaf
• In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt
• There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. – Peabo Bryson
• In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge. – C. V. Raman
• You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters. – Wendy Kopp
• I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. – Joseph Rotblat
• I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. – Antonio Tabucchi
• These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism. – bell hooks
• I think also there’s no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he’s become diluted. – James Spader
• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. – Victor Hugo
• I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history. – Oliver Stone
• I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important. – Peter Ackroyd
• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. – Walter Scott
• All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. – Charles A. Beard
• Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
• If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. – E. O. Wilson
• My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. – Ellen Tauscher
• Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. – Umberto Eco
• It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. – Molly Ivins
• I’ve been on the show for six years and I don’t even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it’s hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don’t have the details. – Crystal Chappell
• The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda. – Sepp Blatter
• Where in the world would I rather be than on the front line of history? – Lynsey Addario
• There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein’s classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. – Edward Witten
• We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd. – Bernie Sanders
• Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. – Sandra Day O’Connor
• Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. – Queen Elizabeth II
• Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. – Renee Fleming
• If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton
• In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. – James Hillman
• If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. – Ludwig von Mises
• Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. – Robert Staughton Lynd
• History is the story of events, with praise or blame. – Cotton Mather
• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people – history has made us all South Africans. – Mangosuthu Buthelezi
• Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history. – Pope Francis
• True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man’s words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions. – Lester B. Pearson
• The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. – Lance Morrow
• Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. – Dinesh D’Souza

• When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. – Arnold J. Toynbee
• Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better. – Scott Walker
• If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. – Steven Johnson
• Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. – Anne Sullivan
• Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another. – Richard M. Nixon
• The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. – Corazon Aquino
• There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. – Charlie Kaufman
• I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history. – Colin Powell
• I’m not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art. – Kristen Wiig
• The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. – Herman Cain
• No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. – Muhammad Ali
• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. – Tacitus
• I am responsible only to God and history. – Francisco Franco
• There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. – Michelle Obama
• We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. – Dick Gregory
• It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country’s history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book. – Sidney Blumenthal
• The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. – Barbara Tuchman
• The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. – James Hutton
• Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity. – Jean Charest
• Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? – Prince Charles
• I’d been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. – Phil Klay
• Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ’s vineyard. – Pope John Paul II
• While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. – Mattie Stepanek
• September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible. – Doris Lessing
• Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That’s the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute. – Antonin Scalia
• Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I’m still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done. – Eugene Cernan
• My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made. – Jorge Ramos
• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. – Louis D. Brandeis
• Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold J. Toynbee
• Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man’s first attempts to order his view of the outside world. – Stephen Gardiner
• My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history. – Martin Kippenberger
• It’s almost sickening now that the regulators ‘on the beat’ while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves on the back for their ‘brave’ stance on short-selling! – James Chanos
• History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. – C. S. Lewis
• History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. – Enoch Powell
• To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything. – Albert Camus
• They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. – Douglas MacArthur
• Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. – Donald Trump

• That great dust-heap called ‘history’. – Augustine Birrell
• If you are going to describe the history of animation, you’d look at the early Disney work, then ‘Bugs Bunny,’ ‘Road Runner’ and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle,’ you’d see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head. – Ray Bradbury
• Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. – Noah Feldman
• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln
• History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. – Robert Kiyosaki
• Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that’s my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world. – Angela Davis
• The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It’s unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that’s never been advertised. And there’s a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there’s a ton of it left over. – Lewis Black
• You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved. – Aga Khan IV
• If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. – Nina Garcia
• What Britain needs is an iron lady. – Margaret Thatcher
• Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. – Frederick Jackson Turner
• If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most. – Trevor Noah
• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. – Karl Marx
• There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. – Benjamin Harrison
• The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. – Nadine Gordimer
• Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. – Abraham Lincoln
• Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. – Donald Kagan
• And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda
• My work is not about my life history. It’s not about the story of my neurosis. – Anish Kapoor
• No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time. – Richard Preston
• Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. – Pierre Bayle
• The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. – Noam Chomsky
• Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. – Leigh Hunt
• All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. – Friedrich Engels
• Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they’re whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they’ve got. I can’t possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. – David Cronenberg
• 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. – Randy Forbes
• Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage – the union between one man and one woman – has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation’s history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. – Jim DeMint
• I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. – David Attenborough
• The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. – Benjamin Disraeli
• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we’d have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. – William J. Clinton
• I don’t think I’m morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn’t appeal to me, and I don’t read it. I think I’m a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history. – Joyce Carol Oates
• The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
• It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. – Henry Kissinger
• In most of history, societies have not been free. It’s a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. – Michael Novak
• The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. – Horatio Alger

• If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone’s search history, there’s a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company. – Ashton Kutcher
• Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman
• 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. – Robert Mugabe
• Human history in essence is the history of ideas. – H. G. Wells
• I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history. – Judy Chicago
• East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. – William Kirby
• Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism. – Jack Schwartz
• The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that’s least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. – Tom Hayden
• The history of liberty is a history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson
• Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. – Anwar Sadat
• In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions. – Reza Aslan
• Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily. – Maynard James Keenan
• The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. – Woodrow Wilson
• Before I’m a zombie nerd, before I’m a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. – Max Brooks
• There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia’s history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed. – Boris Yeltsin
• In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario – where the candidate with the most votes loses – has happened three times in U.S. history. – Juan Williams
• The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day. – John C. Maxwell
• I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor. – Edward Everett
• We are set to make very bad history. – Tom Wilson
• Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. – John F. Kennedy
• November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet. – Afrika Bambaataa
• As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don’t want our blunders in history to get repeated. – Gloria Estefan
• The history of mankind is the history of ideas. – Luigi Pirandello
• Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it’s not very deep. – I. M. Pei
• The soles of Neil Armstrong’s boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent’s sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong. – Mitt Romney
• America’s honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world. – Rick Santorum
• History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim. – Robert Anton Wilson
• Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead
• The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant. – Dallas Willard
• I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters. – Mia Love
• The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism. – Nayef Al-Rodhan
• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. – Margaret Thatcher
• One thing I’ve learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There’s no fait accompli to any of this. – Jeremy Rifkin
• It’s more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning. – Stanley Tucci
• Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people. – Karyn Parsons
• No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. – Richard M. Nixon
• The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history. – Pauline Neville-Jones
• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families. – Lalu Prasad Yadav
• When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it’s never really been good for them. – Lennox Lewis
• I know there’s some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. – Loretta Lynn
• Our history is not our destiny. – Alan Cohen
• No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. – P. J. O’Rourke
• To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history. – Auguste Comte
• It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. – Henry James
• All that is noble in the world’s past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. – James Martineau
• He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor
• I subscribe to William Faulkner’s’ view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. – Ken Burns
• I don’t ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music. – Smokey Robinson
• The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. – David Hume
• American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. – Harold Rosenberg

• In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia. – John Sergeant Wise
• Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. – Hans Haacke
• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The ‘situation’ is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. – Philip Zimbardo
• There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt
• It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. – Sonia Sotomayor
• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson
• My Dublin wasn’t the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. – Colin Farrell
• If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. – Robert D. Kaplan
• God cannot alter the past, though historians can. – Samuel Butler
• In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. – Elon Musk
• During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema. – Michael Winner
• The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. – A. Whitney Brown
• America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. – Georges Clemenceau
• Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. – Barry Goldwater
• A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. – Emile Durkheim
• History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville
• Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. – Alfred Rosenberg
• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man’s being, unfolding itself in thought. – Karl Jaspers
• When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples – and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will. – Guy Gavriel Kay
• In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly. – Hugo Black
• Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. – Al Gore
• September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. – Tom Ford
• History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right – how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. – Amy Waldman
• In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. – Edward de Bono
• Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point. – Joe Greene
• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. – Napoleon Bonaparte
• I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes. – Cary Elwes
• The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war. – George W. Bush
• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. – Mahatma Gandhi
• My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history. – Wayne Dyer
• Time is my greatest enemy. – Evita Peron
• My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren’t created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. – Camille Paglia
• It’s hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones. – Nancy Gibbs
• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. – Mao Zedong
• We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. – Waylon Jennings
• I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. – Walton Goggins
• In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy
• Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. – William O. Douglas
• If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. – Carter G. Woodson
• For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History’s first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war. – Armstrong Williams
• The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? – Katharine Anthony
• If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn’t eat lunch. – A. N. Wilson
• The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell
• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. – Malcolm Bradbury
• By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf. – Noam Chomsky
• History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state. – Michael K. Simpson
• What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don’t just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else. – Steven Johnson
• Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer
• I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic. – Tony Parsons

• Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. – John Polkinghorne
• Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’ – Maya Angelou
• As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race. – Cass Sunstein
• Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. – Haile Selassie
• I guess the reason that I’m a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that’s why, for all of human history, we’ve been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place. – Annie Parisse
• You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn’t devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career… So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised. – Lloyd Blankfein
• We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. – Todd Gitlin
• Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. – Dag Hammarskjold
• History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon
• In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for. – Reza Aslan
• But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it’s the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan’s beard look good. – Bill Walton
• Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. – John Moody
• 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. – Jon Meacham
• History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. – Wendell Willkie
• If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes – the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War – they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play. – Christian Lacroix
• I didn’t do improv in college, I never performed, I didn’t do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. – Demetri Martin
• World War II was the last government program that really worked. – George Will
• History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss. – Pete Sessions
• The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. – Nikita Khrushchev
• I wouldn’t attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. – John Foster Dulles
• For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don’t know my neighbors, where people don’t necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I’m missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people. – Sela Ward
• Why is ‘Game of Thrones’ the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can’t get it fast enough, that’s why. – Kevin Spacey
• 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. – Robert Toombs
• I do consider myself part of black history. – Mary J. Blige
• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? – Jackie Kennedy
• We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists… to understand how those evil things came about. – Jared Diamond
• The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. – Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
• The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. – Lawrence Summers
• Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. – Winston Churchill
• If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. – Elon Musk
• Few writers in history have ever been ‘politically correct’ (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there’s no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos. – Edmund White
• In a way, the history of jazz’s development is a small mirror of classical music’s development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. – Mike Figgis
• I’m not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. – Richard Dawkins
• History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers. – Jason Kilar

• I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school. – Chris Rock
• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them. – P. J. O’Rourke
• I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being. – Arthur Darvill
• A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. – Washington Irving
• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. – Mark Twain
• I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. – Brenton Thwaites
• All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! – Camille Paglia
• Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. – Jacques Chirac
• The idea that fiction can capture the stories that fall through the cracks of history informed ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ which progresses across the two Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s. – Anthony Marra
• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. – Irving R. Kaufman
• History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon
• The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. – Arthur C. Clarke
• I’m going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in ‘Malcolm X,’ and I’m trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party. – Bobby Seale
• This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged. – Jerry Costello
• Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. – George Lucas
• For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead
• It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before. – Walter Kaufmann
• To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. – Irving R. Kaufman
• When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. – M. H. Abrams
• In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary. – Louis Sullivan
• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot
• I’ve done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds. – Brad D. Smith
• Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy. – Earl Browder
• Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. – Edward R. Murrow
• We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein’s soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly. – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
• The so-called ‘materialistic conception of history,’ with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the ‘Communist Manifesto,’ still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. – Max Weber
• Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence. – Martin Jacques
• Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. – Will Durant
• I have not much interest in anyone’s personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that. – Katherine Anne Porter
• There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. – Claude Vorilhon
• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. – Desmond Tutu
• Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I’m always looking for source material. – Jeff Koons
• The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn’t nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. – Malcolm X
• Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. – Ted Nugent
• History is merciless. History doesn’t care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It’s up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live! – James Howard Kunstler
• The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul. – Emma Goldman
• The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot
• No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned. – John Brown Gordon
• Value people on their potential, not on their history. – Bo Bennett
• It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. – Woodrow Wilson
• Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. – Mason Cooley
• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte
• The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. – Vladimir Lenin
• Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. – Johan Huizinga
• Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. – H. L. Mencken
• The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don’t have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal. – Mark Helprin
• I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. – Edward Snowden
• However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan’s democracy. – Chen Shui-bian
• History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. – Anselm Kiefer

• It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. – Norman Mailer
• If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. – Sarah Churchwell
• I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents. – Francis Collins
• History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. – Ken Burns
• The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. – Queen Elizabeth II
• You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames. – Martin Freeman
• I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived. – Kara Lindsay
• I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies. – Christa McAuliffe
• When you say things like, ‘We have to wipe out the Taliban,’ what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. – Arundhati Roy
• I grew up around books – my grandmother’s house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around. – John Irving
• Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
• An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. – William Manchester
• In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense. – Chiang Kai-shek
• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey
• For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. – Ann Druyan
• The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history. – Noam Chomsky
• The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. – Kim Il-sung
• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. – Dag Hammarskjold
• Revolutions are the locomotives of history. – Karl Marx
• English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It’s the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning. – Richard Lederer
• The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s. – Harry S Truman
• I had a go at changing history – maybe not all by myself – I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. – LeRoy Neiman
• France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. – Francois Mitterrand
• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture. – Learned Hand
• An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. – Peter Utley
• Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism. – Justin Sane
• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. – Henry Adams
• I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
• I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history. – Vivienne Westwood
• History never looks like history when you are living through it. – John W. Gardner
• With God’s help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history. – John Agyekum Kufuor
• Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That’s another question. – Gilles Duceppe
• So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. – Michael Ledeen
• The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands. – John Lothrop Motley
• So you know, everyone points out Greece’s default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money. – James Chanos
• The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. – Byron White
• Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history. – Isaac Herzog
• It’s not painful to relive it. I’m comfortable with my position in American history. – Rodney King
• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history. – Ralph Nader
• Sometimes – history needs a push. – Vladimir Lenin
• I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history. – Albert Reynolds
• I’m not giving up my history and what I’ve done in my music because I love it and I’m very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. – LL Cool J
• One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life. – Catherine Opie
• You know, the way art history is taught, often there’s nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. – Chuck Close
• If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. – Charles Sumner
• They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. – G. Gordon Liddy
• It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle. – Krist Novoselic
• 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. – Colin Powell
• Prayer and dependence on God has been our history. How unfortunate it is now that an unaccountable and unelected and misguided judge from Wisconsin, Judge Barbara Crabb, has declared National Days of Prayer – established by the Congress – to be unconstitutional. – James Dobson
• I love history… everything is inspired by history, so that’s why I love vintage and antiques. – Kelly Wearstler
• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant
• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America’s bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history. – Rahm Emanuel
• Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-’60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff. – Pete Best
• Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. – Auguste Rodin
• Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell
• History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. – James Howard Kunstler
• History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. – Malcolm Muggeridge
• I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy. – Joe Lieberman
• Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. – Pierre de Coubertin
• I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.’ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. – Noam Chomsky

• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. – B. C. Forbes
• All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. – Moliere
• I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. – Herbert Hoover
• When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. – Evita Peron
• My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history. – Alice Temperley
• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. – James K. Polk
• The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. – Simon Wiesenthal
• Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley
• It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it. – Nelson Rockefeller
• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. – Warren Buffett
• The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable. – Elon Musk
• It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. – Benito Mussolini
• Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history. – Noam Chomsky
• Completeness? Happiness? These words don’t come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. – Anita Baker
• I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we’re going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that’s not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. – Stephen Harper
• We learned the value of research in World War II. – Amar Bose
• The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years’ War and of history. – Kathryn Harrison
• Hip-hop’s always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it’s always had a lot of positivity. – LL Cool J
• Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H. L. Mencken
• A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. – David Hume
• 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. – Woodrow Wilson
• No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt
• Yes, they broke the law, but we can’t deport them. Let’s get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it – they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. – Michael Bloomberg
• I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn’t have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, ‘Hey, here’s the key. Here’s the key to understanding life and all its forms.’ – Tom Wolfe
• I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It’s really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. – Nikki Giovanni
• It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. – Gertrude Stein
• Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s. – Madame de Stael
• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor
• Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. – Christopher Columbus
• We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. – Milton Friedman
• A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don’t even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they’re so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it’s the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic ‘newsworthy’ events. – Robert D. Kaplan
• American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. – Herbert Croly
• We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. – Jeb Bush
• My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me. – William Jennings Bryan
• Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn’t have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees. – Jennifer Granholm
• Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. – E. L. Doctorow
• The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. – Aung San Suu Kyi
• History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire
• It’s very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don’t think they are burdened by their history. – Zaha Hadid
• We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball. – Bill Walton
• Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for ‘democracy’ has meant different things to different people at different times and places. – Robert A. Dahl
• The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. – Jacques Chirac
• American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. – Chad Harbach
• Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart. – Vikas Swarup
• I think there’s a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe. – Danica Patrick
• God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world. – Sheri L. Dew
• Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. – James Nasmyth
• 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. – Scott Walker
• History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody’s own vacancy. – Robert Smithson
• Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. – Mary McLeod Bethune
• The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. – James Baldwin
• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. – Naguib Mahfouz
• All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. – Sarah Zettel
• The people who have really made history are the martyrs. – Aleister Crowley
• History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce
• The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy. – Tim Wise
• I’m pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history. – Alison Bechdel
• The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. – Jon Meacham
• The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. – John Moody

• History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. – Alan Greenspan
• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? – Ferdinand Marcos
• History has shown that a government’s redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector’s creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy. – Victor Davis Hanson
• Long after this wonderful event in the Earth’s history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. – Harry Johnston
• The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? – George Stephanopoulos
• A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. – Peter Cooper
• I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There’s a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it’s like meditation. – Brian Wilson
• Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world’s affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace. – Arthur Henderson
• Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true. – Donald Trump
• I’m obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise. – Thierry Henry
• I don’t think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it. – Doc Rivers
• History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history. – Chris Chocola
• The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. – Vladimir Putin
• History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. – Lawrence Durrell
• Equally, we require a collective past – hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. – Penelope Lively
• Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one. – Jurgen Klinsmann
• I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it. – Kathryn Lasky
• One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That’s the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. – William O. Douglas
• The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter. – Herbert Croly
• Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne’er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties. – Michael Sims
• I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know. – Lara St. John
• I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don’t like to do too much that’s improbable. – Philip Kerr
• Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. – John Polkinghorne
• If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. – Strom Thurmond
• 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. – Michael Phelps
• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman
• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius
• 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. – Barack Obama
• If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! – William Makepeace Thackeray
• And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you’re going to repeat it; and if you’re burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don’t get it, you’re missing the whole point. – Michael Berryman
• We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. – John F. Kennedy
• Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history. – Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
• Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. – Pope John Paul II
• History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. – Vladimir Putin
• World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years. – Ken Follett
• My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I’m the son of my history. – Jose Mujica
• Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it. – Evita Peron
• It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. – Michael Apted
• A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. – Camille Paglia
• I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it. – Kanye West
• In man – in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they’re occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people’s will is what achieves victory. – Hassan Nasrallah
• Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! – Nikita Khrushchev
• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. – Benjamin Disraeli
• Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country. – Jackson Browne
• History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. – Will Durant
• Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. – Ken Kesey
• Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It’s a collective process. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar. – Charles Bukowski
• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill
• I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it’s a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in ‘Little Miss Sunshine.’ He’s a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable. – Alan Arkin
• Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
• The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history. – Sarah Harrison
• It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. – Thomas Friedman
• We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. – Juan Antonio Samaranch
• 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. – Stockwell Day
• History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. – Rosa Luxemburg
• The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx
• History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. – Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it. – Prince Charles
• English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry’s conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge. – Ben Miles
• There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. – Harry S Truman
• It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge. – Ronnie Chan
• A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. – Grover Cleveland
• Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland. – Walter Ulbricht

• History is written by the victors. – Winston Churchill
• Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. – Jefferson Davis
• How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• I’ve always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It’s a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there’s a lot of history and culture, and I like the serenity of Buddhism there. It’s very beautiful. I find that to be a very nice place to visit. – Matt Dillon
• Yes, we’ve seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling – baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. – John Thorn
• A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’ – William F. Buckley, Jr.
• People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. – Dan Quayle
• Like their personal lives, women’s history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. – Elizabeth Janeway
• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. – Karl Marx
• For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. – Michael Pollan
• Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. – Francis Cabot Lowell
• Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he’s extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn’t seem comfortable in his skin. – Ron Fournier
• What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world. – Emir Kusturica
• Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. – Cecil Beaton
• The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides. – Octavio Paz
• 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. – Helena Blavatsky
• Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato
• An attempt is already underway to revise history – to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. – John J. Sirica
• Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. – Will Durant
• With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there’s a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge’s plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, ‘natural history.’ – Rachel Johnson
• History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. – Ted Koppel
• As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution. – Joyce Meyer
• The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. – Nancy Pelosi
• This is our history – from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges – our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation’s infrastructure. – Cory Booker
• It’s what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they’re not going anywhere. – Michael Nesmith
• Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. – David Brinkley
• I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration. – Valentina Tereshkova
• Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God. – Sun Myung Moon
• If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. – Black Elk
• Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. – Douglas MacArthur
• Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn’t hurt your appreciation of the painting. – Jodie Foster
• I’d like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation. – Jane Haddam
• The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. – Carl T. Rowan
• Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space. – Samantha Power
• We are not makers of history. We are made by history. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing. – Michael Moritz
• More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. – Kofi Annan
• I study history in order to give an interpretation. – Oliver Stone
• English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background. – David Crystal

• Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. – Lyndon B. Johnson
• The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf
• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. – Margaret Thatcher
• The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses. – Robert Kennedy
• History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. – Ferdinand Marcos
• Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history – now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. – Paul Begala
• By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what’s happening today. – Christoph Waltz
• History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. – Noam Chomsky
• If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there. – Lou Holtz
• The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. – Susan Sontag
• Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. – Howard Mumford Jones
• Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. – Robert Hall
• Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called ‘progressives’ should be thanking him for it – even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. – John Podhoretz
• What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? – Philip Zimbardo
• History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there. – George Santayana
• In the history of America, we’ve never had an energy plan. We don’t even realize the resources we have available to us. – T. Boone Pickens
• The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents. – Bob Schaffer
• Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed. – Edward M. Lerner
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. – Thomas Jefferson
• Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry. – Marshall Brickman
• History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. – Donald Kagan
• I’m truly worried about the country’s direction. I can tell you this categorically, we’ve got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service. – Fritz Hollings
• Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history. – Eckhard Pfeiffer
• I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects. – Jack L. Chalker
• In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? – Charles de Gaulle
• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. – Dalai Lama
• I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we’ve confronted these things we’ve been able to talk them through, and I’m sure we will with this issue as well. – Michael King
• It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times. – George Saintsbury
• I don’t believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done. – Jacque Fresco
• Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. – Robert Smithson
• They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history. – John Amos
• The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. – D. H. Lawrence
• History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. – Philip Guedalla
• If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world. – Diego Maradona
• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. – Kofi Annan
• I was France. – Charles de Gaulle
• Martha Washington. I think she’s done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman. – Cokie Roberts
• I think… the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. – Tom Stoppard
• Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting. – John Hume
• Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. – George S. Patton
• I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history. – Joe Manchin
• The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information. – Bryant H. McGill
• History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. – Philip Roth
• Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people’s culture and working people’s culture and so forth. – Cornel West
• To this wonderful page in our country’s history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters. – Giuseppe Garibaldi
• I’ve always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don’t know why. I don’t like hot weather, and I don’t like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I’d love to go check it out. – Jean-Luc Bilodeau
• 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. – Jean-Marie Le Pen
• One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. – Emmeline Pankhurst
• History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. – Terence McKenna
• The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. – David Brin
• The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. – Nick Clegg
• 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. – Lord Acton
• It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. – Richard Hofstadter
• It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. – Malcolm Forbes
• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. – Karl Marx
• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. – Karl Marx
• What I’m passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. – Chris Marker
• Everybody knows they’re on the Obama team: There isn’t vice presidential vs. presidential division, there’s not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. – Rahm Emanuel
• History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’ – Eduardo Galeano
• I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this – Tito and Mao Tse-tung. – Earl Browder
• Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion. – Leonardo DiCaprio
• I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning nor shower facilities. I made decisions based upon facts and not what I thought was going to happen. So history will judge me based upon those actions. – Ray Nagin
• I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them. – Cobi Jones
• The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years. – George Matthew Adams
• Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater. – Stacy Schiff
• Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. – George Michael
• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds. – Abraham Lincoln
• England in the ’60s and the ’70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically. – Alan Rickman
• History is full of really good stories. That’s the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. – Sarah Vowell
• Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children. – Polykarp Kusch
• Can’t disagree with the need for a grasp of history. – Gwen Ifill
• Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. – Robert Anton Wilson
• Blood alone moves the wheels of history. – Martin Luther
• A lot of young players don’t really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry. – Jennifer Granholm
• Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher
• More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. – Anders Fogh Rasmussen
• South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures – all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa. – Tariq Ramadan
• Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I’m optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. – Jared Diamond
• People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. – James A. Baldwin
• I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take. – Oliver Stone
• To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman
• I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever. – Steve Lacy