Us History Quotes

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.

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

The most important history is the history we make today.

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

World history is tragic.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.