Us History Quotes

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

Stand up and walk out of your history

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

Truth is in history, but history is not the truth.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.