Us History Quotes

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.

She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

I'm not part of the history, I am the history.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

History repeats itself.

There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

History is written by the victors.

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

What is not recorded is not remembered.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.