Us History Quotes

If you make history with God, He'll make history with you

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

A radiant fellowship of the fallen.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

I really want to help write women back into history.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.