Us History Quotes

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.

If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

History never repeats itself, historians do.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.