Quotes About History

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life!

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195

The Séance & Science Brigade, which had operated along that coast since the fifties, had been obsessed with the twin lighthouses.

There had never been a time when all the people everywhere lived in peace. No one had ever had a lasting peace without ignoring atrocity or history, which meant it wasn't lasting at all. Which meant we were an irrational species.

It is less than five hundred years since an entire half of the world was discovered. It is less than two hundred years since the discovery of the last continent. The sciences of chemistry and physics go back scarcely one century.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

The forbearance of the Confederate Government, under the circumstances, is perhaps unexampled in history. It was carried to the extreme verge, short of a disregard of the safety of the people who had intrusted to that government the duty of their defense against their enemies. The attempt to represent us as the aggressors in the conflict which ensued is as unfounded as the complaint made by the wolf against the lamb in the familiar fable.

Under the Confederate Constitution, on the contrary, the African slave-trade was "hereby forbidden," positively and unconditionally, from the beginning.

There was before the war little powder or ammunition of any kind stored in the Southern States, and this was a relic of the war with Mexico.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. —ARISTOTLE

You see tumbleweeds? You see cowpokes? Indians? This isn't the streets of Laredo.

No man is above justice," George Mason preached at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. That sentiment still rings true, yet competes with the political reality offered by then-representative Gerald Ford, who quipped in 1970 that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

Renaissance" is not a good historical term, since it implies death and rebirth and great cataclysmic changes. There are few abysses or chasms in history; there are merely times when cultural change takes place more quickly and vigorously than at others.

El amilenarismo no es complejo. Es simplemente el evangelio aplicado a la historia del mundo.