Quotes About History

smartass ice heathens from the north descended upon small-town America to laugh at the superstitious but numerically superior yokels of the heartland. In a breathtakingly accurate preview of things to come, the yokels actually won the trial, but history judged them the losers—thanks mainly to the flamboyant propaganda of a godless misanthrope named H. L. Mencken, the brilliant Darwinian ancestor of the modern liberal media.

Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.

the major legislative achievements of the eugenics movement included a set of involuntary sterilization laws that targeted not immigrants or people of color, but poor "feebleminded" whites.

poor white trash became the subject of extensive public debates in the antebellum period.

In 1850, there were only eight graduate students in the entire United States.

The Celts certainly have it in a wonderful measure.

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

That sweet city [Oxford] with her dreaming spires.

You know, those dead white guys, they were pretty smart, they sure had some vision. They couldn't possibly tell what was going to happen in two-hundred years, but they knew we'd need guns to deal with it, eventually.

Read about the then-Greek city of Smyrna in 1922 to see a human Buffalo Jump in action.

We had to hate the Irish more than any blacks. They were fighting back against our supposed oppression of them. At every opportunity, the Irish were to be attacked,

For the first time since 1856, the Republican Party did not issue a platform.

The proper question for conservatives: What do you seek to conserve?" George Will wrote in The Conservative Sensibility (2019). "The proper answer is concise but deceptively simple: We seek to conserve the American Founding.

I want you to know, Ruth, that it was impossible to survive our time without doing wrong. It was an evil age. If we had lived in a better time, then we would have been better people.

One way to combat it was to force sailors to stay on ships for forty days after anchoring, only allowing them to come ashore if they were well after forty days—thus the term quarantine (from the word for forty).

Who is this woman who took on the Emporer Barbarosa, comparing him to an infant and a madman, and threatened that God's sword would smite him? Who is this woman

Julian, by calling us to interfere with patriarchy and heal the wounds that it has wracked upon human history and the human soul and the earth, beckons us from folly to wisdom. Are we listening?

He called him by his name, no doubt, but the divine historian thought not fit to record it, for, because he refused to raise up the name of the dead, he deserved not to have his name preserved to future ages in this history. Providence

He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history;

You could fill whole libraries with the lies that have been told about Christians and Christianity. The world lies about this subject more than anything else.

The single cause to which Everett was perhaps most committed throughout his congressional term was resisting Indian Removal

The moral he drew from the story of ancient slavery in 1836 was that Christianity's benevolent influence had almost imperceptibly and with the spirit of love abolished slavery.

Given a few days to contemplate it, the firing on Fort Sumter had cut through what had been a tangle of painful questions and a thicket obscuring who bore responsibility for thrusting them on the country.