Us History Quotes

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.

Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.

History - the devil's scripture

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.

I like the course, the history - everything about St. Andrews.

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming American.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

I'm passionate about history and there's no more historic place than London. We're sitting on a thousand years of history and you can smell it as you're walking around the streets.

I can't pinpoint a period in history or a place in the universe where religion has actually helped the welfare of man.

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.