Quotes About History

Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

Who knows but that all the men to whom reference has been made, and a multitude of others who lived in by-gone ages borrowed their wise sayings from the talk of the firesides and the conversations of the market places; so that the origin of many proverbs now flippantly quoted in the converse of men is lost in the mists of forgotten centuries.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

History is full of surprises.

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.