Quotes About History

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

The States acceded to the Union.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

Don't forget your history nor your destiny

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.