Us History Quotes

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

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

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

Now that we're established and we have a history we know that we can expect people to show up and to have a good time.

History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.

History is the school of statesmanship.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

We need to repeal and replace Obamacare. It is the largest tax in U.S. history, has proven to be a job-killer, and has driven up the cost of healthcare.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.

We have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television.

We live in the least ugly time in history.

Invest your time, spend less of it, cause you simply can't afford it. Once spent, this time have you, gone will it be, somewhere in history.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.