Quotes About History

But always there was that dark thought -- Vietnam

We helped plow the fields, build the dams, write the poems and sing the music of America. Are not all Americans proud, of Doree Miller, of Frederick Douglass, of Paul Robeson, of Joe Louis, of Marian Anderson

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Upon this point a page of history is worth a volume of logic.

Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time?... It was a great happiness to have been born in an old house haunted by such recollections, with harmless ghosts walking its corridors, with fields of waving grass and trees and singing birds...

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!Long has it waved on high,And many an eye has danced to seeThat banner in the sky;Beneath it rung the battle shout,And burst the cannon's roar—The meteor of the ocean airShall sweep the clouds no more.

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.

In a thousand years archaeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

General John Pershing's famous (if probably apocryphal) "Lafayette, we are here

was no mean achievement to have given a Bill of Rights to a country that, until then, had never known any kind of freedom.

United States, in 1825, was a real nation, with a booming economy, a sound currency, and good roads.

LE MYTHE DE SISYPHE is dense, epigrammatic, and of a deceptive clarity. It looks like a short essay, without technical jargon, cryptic sometimes to a fault. In it, Camus spoke of the world, history, and of his life.

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

Bien sabían los ingleses que las naciones se construyen sobre las tumbas de sus héroes. De no ser así, ¿para qué querían la abadía de Westminster?

Los pueblos que se apoyan sobre tumbas gloriosas son los que mejor se preparan para el porvenir",

Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.

Modern world history began with the discovery of the Self and attained its summit in the eventual awareness of the Absolute Self.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.