Quotes About History

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

The Indians are still winning the battle against the white men, but sooner or later, the white guy will win.

Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.