History Quotes

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

It's a very good historical book about history.