Us History Quotes

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

History passes the final judgment

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

History provides no precise guidelines.

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

I don't know anything about the history of music.

Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history.