Quotes About History

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.

History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

I don't know why people are surprised the French don't want to help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France.

We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we're in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

Be careful. I wouldn't want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language." I laughed. "No problemo.

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember!

We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.