Us History Quotes

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Never in the history of boredom has anyone been more bored than I am right now.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Nothing would have been changed for the German people, but my name would have gone down in history as that of the greatest traitor.

The wisest fool in Christendom.

An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Never say more than is necessary.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

The white race is the cancer of human history.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

The Youngest World Heavyweight Champion in History!

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history.

I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating within.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.