Quotes About History

This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.

From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.

I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

The history of the Zionist enterprise is well-known: surrounded and outnumbered by hostile neighbours, the nascent Israel was forced to defend itself against invasion and certain destruction.

Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.

I am a Zionist.

If you look at zombie movies throughout history, they're always making adjustments. Even the idea of the virus zombies and the back-from-the-dead zombies... there's been tons of tweaks.

We've been doing a 40-year end zone celebration of the victories won by our parents and grandparents. We haven't shepherded our history. We haven't taught it so others can learn from it and implement the lessons.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Poor Mexico, so far from God and so near to the United States.

The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.

The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past, disowning it whenever it can.

America and its demons, Europe and its ghosts.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.