Us History Quotes
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson
All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.
What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
the lies of centuries, the lies of love, the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long-held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a more flattering color.
Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.
I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of
History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.
With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.
The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.
History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .
In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.
Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.
In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.
The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.
The electrical grounding system is the largest radio frequency (RF) radiation antenna system ever constructed in the history of mankind.
Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.
Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations.
When we think carefully about the past, we get to know and understand not just what happened in the past but what really went into things that happened in the past.
History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation’s spirit can be achieved.
For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.