Us History Quotes

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.

You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.

It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

[History is] petrified imagination.

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

All Cretans are liars.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

A new future requires a new past.

I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

History's just one darn thing after another.