History Quotes

"Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder"

John F. Kennedy, President

"The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"Blood alone moves the wheels of history"

Martin Luther, Professor

"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice"

Will Durant, Historian

"Sometimes - history needs a push"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter"

George Will, Journalist

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization"

Georges Clemenceau, Leader

"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible"

Lee Grant, Actress

"I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity"

Camille Paglia, Author

"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage"

Chaim Potok, Author

"We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page"

Barack Obama, President

"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen"

Enoch Powell, Politician

"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"A chronicle is very different from history proper"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing"

Moliere, Playwright

"It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming"

John Coleman, Businessman

"Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history"

John Coleman, Businessman

"It is not observed in history that families improve with time"

George William Curtis, Author

"History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

"If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee"

George Nethercutt, Politician

"History seems to be so clumsy"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work"

Bennie Thompson, Politician

"History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

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