Quotes About History

Can't repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized.

There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.