Quotes About History

One would think that man would run out of wars.

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.

That the man in question should be Donald Trump, with all his personal flaws, challenges the United States and the world as never before in human history.

One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?