Us History Quotes

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

Barack Obama is the worst president in history.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized version of it.

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the 20's with Woodrow Wilson, the government started getting involved in everything.

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.

We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

History is the best guide to the future.

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few.

The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress.

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

Institutions do live on their history.

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.