Quotes About History

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.