Us History Quotes

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

No historian should be trusted implicitly.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Art is science in the flesh.

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.

The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.

One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they [Al Qaeda] intend.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.