Us History Quotes

The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for our intelligence.

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.

History is filled with fictional people.

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

No other single innovation had so much impact on history.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo.

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.

Hillary Clinton's exposed more of our top secret documents than any Secretary of State in history.

The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.

Hillary Clinton's been the worst violator of cyber security so far in the history of the United States.

There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.

I'm not trying to say that we're facing or looking at a likely repeat of history. It would be great if we were.

Ronald Reagan fought for America. He loved America. He feared where the left, based on history, wanted to take the country.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

Much more than memoir; it's history.

If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.

Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.

I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.