Quotes About History

I'm quite sure that, had Twitter been of an age when my grandfather was prime minister, I'm sure they would have used it. He was a brilliant and gifted communicator.

I had a very good relationship with President Bill Clinton when I was prime minister.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

Pretty much every prime minister since I can remember has made me mad.

It was a Labour prime minister who appointed the first black male and female cabinet ministers.

I have dealt with politicians ever since I came into the government in 1971. I have seen many prime ministers, many finance ministers.

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

I depended a lot on being an over-the-top, ridiculous, obnoxious, Staten Island Princess. That's what I did, and I guess the rest is history.

I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.

Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

The fact is, American law encourages whistleblowers and, often, they go down in history as courageous people of principle who made their country better.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

Even if the KKK isn't the outsized presence it once was in this country, many of its principles and ideas are alive and well.

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation's history.

A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.