Quotes About History

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,

It's sometimes a blessing that great historical figures don't live to see what people do to their visions.

Love is the most abused word in history. It is, simply, caring more for others than you do for yourself.

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

It was an old .38 caliber Colt Army revolver, the basic 1892 model that had been modified two years later.

Unfortunately," he said, "we have short memories. Most heroes are forgotten by the next news cycle.

You wander around near Independence Park and the Hall of the People, and you get a sense that they will be there forever. But forever is a long time. The people who lived in Washington before the waters came probably thought that about their city. But it's all temporary, baby. Perpetuity is an illusion.

Live from Babylon and Ur, From Athens and Alexandria and Rome, The voices of a thousand generations, Press us, Urge us on-.

Eight years after the joy of electing our first black president, racial tensions only worsened. Despite the nation uniting to shatter the black ceiling, today we seem more divided than before.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

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Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting, and doing the things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry, and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happens on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

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A fin de conquistar el mundo para el catolicismo romano, el Vaticano formo y financio la maquinaria de guerra de Hitler y los jesuitas prepararon secretamente la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Hitler, Mussolini y Franco serian los defensores de la fe.

Ellos fueron preparados para ganar y conquistar el mundo, y establecer un milenio para el papa. Entre bastidores, los jesuitas controlaban la Gestapo. Todos estos datos estan totalmente documentados en LA HISTORIA SECRETA DE LOS JESUITAS,

The Mongol army had accomplished in a mere two years what the European Crusaders from the West and the Seljuk Turks from the East had failed to do in two centuries of sustained effort. They had conquered the heart of the Arab world. No other non-Muslim troops would conquer Baghdad or Iraq again until the arrival of the American and British forces in 2003.

In probably the first law of its kind anywhere in the world, Genghis Khan decreed complete and total religious freedom for everyone.

For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history.

In the space of a few, bright years, something new stirred in this land; something unprecedented; something wonderful; and men, being men, perceived it with stunned awe and then, being men, destroyed it without thought, for being new and strange.

Carrie lay on the bed and gazed at the ceiling. She was back in business. It was a day to remember. December 7, the same day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day America declared war on Japan. America declared war. And she was a whore again.

Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

She who could speak in leaves and knew the language of birds, the history of the world, knew that it was time for a change.