Us History Quotes
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.
Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
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.
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.
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
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.
America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.
An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race. But I will be the youngest woman President in the history of the United States!
Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.
Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.
