Us History Quotes

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

History as the slaughter-bench

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.

Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

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.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history.

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win.

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

The shock of the new after the biggest upset in American political history, this unforgettable, once unimaginable image Donald Trump side by side with President Obama in the Oval Office.

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because I understand the power of faith, that faith can change lives.

In the future history will be made only by us.

History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.

History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

I think all presidents should take the long view of history.