Us History Quotes

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.

If you're informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain things.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

History is written by the dreamers, not the doubters.

If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

What's shaking, chiefy baby?

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

History is the study of the world's crime

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.