Us History Quotes

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.

We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism.

A man with a long history of racial discrimination should never run our government.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past.

I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

History is where tensions were.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

The history of drawing is a history of 'realities'. Every age has its own conceptions, held to be true at that time, believed to be true for all times.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

If history's any judge, you might have democratic leanings in a revolution but that doesn't necessarily mean that the revolution is going to end up with democratic results.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while Blacks were enslaved and were the assets of Whites.

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

It’s history. It’s poetry.

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

This is the best day in the history of the world, even though yesterday that seemed an impossibility.

Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.

Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.