Quotes About History

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today".

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community's vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.