History Quotes

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

I let the American people down.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

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

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.