Quotes About History

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about the 1967 borders is rubbish.

You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.

On the island of Ireland the issue of the border is more than just a practical issue; it is about emotion, history and politics.

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

Norman Vincent Peale brought the Gospel in a very practical way in our time of history for not only New York but our nation and also the Trump family.

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.

Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will be able to cling to him or not.

I'm practically a historian.

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes. I never really considered judges or scholars as either those who used legislative history or those who were opposed to it until after I got on the court.

My great grandfather was the last practicing Jew in my family. He died in 1982.

Prague is a dark place.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

You can't know who you are unless you know where you came from and give praise to those who laid the foundation.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.

I always look for judges who respect precedent.

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.

No historical analogies are exactly precise.