Us History Quotes

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

All history is biography.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

We live ruins amid ruins.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

There is no history; only biography.

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, you don't build that.

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

People need their history like they need air and food.

If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.

The system gives you two minutes to phrase a whole history.

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

I've been the longest-serving police commissioner in the history of the department, but it's time in my life to move on. I'm ready for new adventures, new challenges.

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years.

The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.