Us History Quotes

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

History is on the side of the regulators.

It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

The only new thing is history we don't know.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

Men make history, not the other way around.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.

According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

During the darkest periods in recent history, of course, the most subversive things you could do is think, read if you can get the material and remind yourself that love exists.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

History is the memory of States.

For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

History is only a value of relation.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.