Us History Quotes
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.
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in 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.
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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.
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 errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.
You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.
Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.
I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.
Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de
Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.
Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .
