Quotes About History

together, and in Russia. Ekaterinburg was their Calvary.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

We are walking archives of ancestral wisdom.

Soy una apasionada de los libros escritos por testigos oculares.

That's for me. I am a great lover of 'I was there' books.

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.

Anachronism' implies something long dead, and nothing is dead here. History, as they say, is alive and living in London.

You decide to stop using the word "anachronism" when a seventeenth-century carriage drives through the gates of Buckingham Palace carrying twentieth-century Russian or African diplomats to be welcomed by a queen. "Anachronism" implies something long dead, and nothing is dead here. History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.

But God's Word, the Word that says he is our Father, the Word that has been calling out to us men from the first day of creation: "You are mine!" - this Word endures through all the eclipses of history, it sounds above the hoofbeats of the apocalyptic horsemen, and it will still be the saving Word on God's great last day of reckoning when the Judge will come to us and, suddenly, he will turn out to be our Father.

The greater part of historical and natural phenomena are not simple, or not simple in the way we would like. —PRIMO LEVI

the ancient blood libel: that every year at Passover, Jews ritually slaughter Christian children and use their blood to bake matzo.

they called in the Prussian army to restore order and protect the Jews, who numbered just over three hundred men, women, and children in a town of ten thousand.

these instances bore none of the harrowing features of racially motivated torture, mutilation, and cruelty endemic to Euro-American lynching of African Americans. In Germany, the ritual did not culminate as it did in roughly five thousand cases in the United States between the end of the American Civil War and 1968—in actual human sacrifice.

Moritz Stern's Source Contributions to the Position of the Popes on the Jews, which gathered together the medieval papacy's impressive record denouncing the ritual-murder accusation

Frank showed that the accusations had almost always been fabricated and that in almost all cases the church, as well as many learned men, had opposed them.

Not all of us have that luxury, of a past. My history doesn't offer me much in that respect.

You know," Baba continues, "Pakistan has a lot of strong, independent, and brilliant women, in history, and today. Groups like the Taliban may be trying to hold them back. But the women will prevail. I know they will.

Great Britain, an island off the Dutch coast, which is responsible for the happiness of fully one-quarter of the human race. Per: Van Loon's Geography, Copy-write 1932. Garden City Publishing, Copy-write 1937; Page-216.

The wisest fool in Christendom [James I of England].

Paris is well worth a Mass.

I saw that they wanted to kill the past. When we are old, we let it die; when we are young and strong, we kill it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.