Us History Quotes

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

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

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.

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

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

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

...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.

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

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.

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.

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.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

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

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.

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

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember those that celebrate it.

Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.