History Quotes

Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

You create history within yourself. You create history within your own family. You create your own legacy. Because I create history without even trying to and that's when the best parts of history are created.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

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.

As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

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.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

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.