Us History Quotes

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale.

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

We can’t change history, but we can create the future.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

Work hard, have fun and make history.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

History is full of surprises.

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.