Quotes About History

How can there be a true History, when we see no man living is able to write truly the History of the last week?', as Sir Will demands in Thomas Shadwell's play The Squire of Alsatia (1688)

He ordered them to "read how you treated your King David and all pious kings, yes, the holy prophets and people, and don't treat us heathens as dogs," positioning the Jews as the enemies of the Old Testament heroes and repeatedly invoking Jesus as the Messiah who had been crucified by the Jews.

Luther argued that the Jews were a people who had been punished by God for 1,500 years, since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, because they did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

Tell the Vietnamese they've got to draw in their horns or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery

Down Cut Shin Creek: The Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky by Kathi Appelt and Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer.

History has a way of forgetting the mistresses of great men. Even if they have talent.

You were right to insist that we invest in the beds. I don't know why we did not jump on getting them sooner. She knew why. A woman, Dr. Jesse Wright invented them. And much like Sister Kenny's method for rehabilitating polio patients, her idea was scorned until enough men embraced it.

Despite the continuing popularity of biographies of famous people and books about major wars, history is in crisis and not just one of university budgets.

Democratization of national history went hand in hand with democratization of the university. The experiences of workers, slaves, indigenous peoples, women, and minorities could no longer be ignored.

The unofficial reason for England's occupation of India was to tap Indian resources to expand British wealth

One hundred and fifty years ago, the respect we now have for nurses and the intense training that nurses must undergo was nothing but a seed in Florence Nightingale's imagination. If we believe that nurses are some of the most respectable and hardworking people in our community, we owe that belief to Florence Nightingale.

The Crimean War earned the distinction of being the first time in British history that a medical corps was accused of negligence.

There will be a layer in the fossil record where you'll know people were here because of the squashed remains of automobiles. It will be a very thin layer.

Judaeo-Christian legacy informs the way that even most materialist sceptic thinks and behaves. Whether we like it or not, that legacy has built the history that spawned us, and shaped the attitudes that linger, often unpleasantly, in the dark recesses of our minds.