History Quotes

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.