Us History Quotes

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

There is no history of how bad became better.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

The dignity of history.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt called "the virtue of thoughtfulness."

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

I feel like I'm part of television history.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.

I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.

Beneath every history, another history.

I do myself think that history is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.

Our history has shown us that the strongest growth in our economy is inclusive, broad-based growth.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.