Quotes About History

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

History will tell the story, America will always stand.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.