Quotes About History

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

I was nominated at first by a group called Justice Democrats. They were trying to essentially field non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm election. They were looking for people with a history of community service, and my name had come across their desk, and they called.

My party has historically nominated someone who's a mainstream conservative.

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

I either like reading fun war-based sci-fi, books about the lives of chefs, or dry historical non-fiction.

I come from a very conventional and non-political background.

If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s.

Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened to her. That process of bringing her story back doesn't have to be a serious one. What I say is all nonsense, but it helps to keep her memory alive.

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.

We came from an era when women normally did not rock.

We don't normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn't have the vote and weren't allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation.

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.

A lot of Americans do not have an appreciation for our history. They do not understand the Constitution, why we have these norms. And at some point, yes, the media has some responsibility, but so does the public.

The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.

There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.