Quotes About History

WITH the growing population of slaves in the Southern States of America, there is a fearful increase of half whites, most of whose fathers are slaveowners and their mothers slaves.

The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop.

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters.

Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things And battles long ago.

MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen

The Bluesis the roots of all American music.

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Jetzt sind wir in einer Situation, in der wieder zusammenwächst, was zusammengehört." ("Now we are in a situation where what belongs together, will grow back together.") Berlin radio interview, November 10, 1989 [the day after the de facto abolition of intra-German border controls by the East German government]

I]ch habe es noch in diesem Sommer erneut zu Papier gebracht: Berlin wird leben, und die Mauer wird fallen." ("I put it down on paper again in the summer of this year: Berlin will live, and the Wall will come down.") Speech at Rathaus Schöneberg (Berlin City Hall) on November 10, 1989 [the day after the de facto abolition of intra-German border controls by the East German government]

Everyone knew immediately where we were. It was so insane—that moment of realization, Yes, this is an extermination camp.

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

Did you see that thing? That's Sidat-Singh! The Syracuse Walking Dream!

I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.

the U.S. government this very summer was sending an army against the Mormons at the big salty lake to make the Mormons live like the other wasicu, especially not to take more than one wife. Incomprehensible. "They

1832: The Illinois militia effectively ended the Black Hawk War with the massacre of Black Hawk's tribe, including women, children, and old men.

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

There are many histories of North America. The experiences of successive waves of immigrants are distinct, as are—to a large degree—the histories of the different classes compromising the immigrant waves. The histories of the various peoples native to the continent are also quite distinct within themselves. The story of each of these groups holds a rightful claim to its own integrity, to its own place and fullness of meaning within the whole. To deny this is to distort.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.