Us History Quotes

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

History can never be covered up.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

None but blockheads copy each other.

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

If elected, Hillary Clinton will be the least popular president to be elected in modern history. So there's going to be very little incentive on the part of Republicans to work with her.

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.

History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

There is no history of artthere is the history of artists.

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure. George Washington couldn't tell a lie.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

History does not have sides, although historians do.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.