The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It’s the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
I want history to remember me… not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
I got left for Mr. Bean. I found out a year after we split up. I opened the newspaper and there was a full-page story. No one else in the history of time has ever been left for Mr. Bean.
History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
I’m head-over-heels in love with Southeast Asia. Every time I touch down in Thailand, Cambodia, or Vietnam, the air washes over me, and I feel like I’m home. From the people to the food to the history, there’s just no place like it.
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don’t use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
I wouldn’t attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
That’s history. I say history because it happened in the past.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
Violence is a part of America. I don’t want to single out rap music. Let’s be honest. America’s the most violent country in the history of the world, that’s just the way it is. We’re all affected by it.
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that’s least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.
The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird’s eye view, it’s the Indigenous way of storytelling.
You can’t change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Our culture’s obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.
In conclusion, history is an invaluable teacher that offers us insights, guidance, and an appreciation for the complexities of the human experience. As we navigate the present and shape the future, let us draw upon the wisdom shared by those who came before us. May these history quotes ignite our curiosity, deepen our understanding, and inspire us to learn from the past as we strive for a better tomorrow.
