Quotes About History

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

The National Football league is on the wrong side of history.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

History is sympathetic to its authors.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.