Quotes About History

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

A book brings its own history to the reader.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.