Quotes About History

Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

I would adore to make up with the United States of America... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend?

Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into the most successful bastion of freedom and prosperity in human history, the United States of America.

If it hadn't been for that march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, there would be no Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

When I worked picking cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were moral and hard-working, we loved the country, too. It only makes sense to love the place where you were born - especially the United States of America. But as blacks fell for the lies of socialism and communism, they also fell away from love.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.

It used to be said that war was the locomotive of history, with its power to accelerate change. The coronavirus crisis has that same power. It has already shown us who we really are, and how there is much more than unites than divides us. It has shown how governments need to work with their citizens to overcome threats or challenges.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

I have every reason, despite the resentment and exasperation, to be proud. I have nothing better to be proud of than being proud of German unity.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

In 1967 the last Unity Caravan was held.