Quotes About History

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating back to the days of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

War remains the decisive human failure.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.

James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.