Us History Quotes
Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems.
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.
It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other
It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity for all are within reach. But we cannot prevaricate.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.