Us History Quotes

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

I've never done a comedy club in my life. It's weird because I don't have the same background as most comics. I don't have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.

History marched to the drums of a clear idea...

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

It's so damned humiliating.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS

I counted them all out and I counted them all back.

A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.