Quotes About History

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

at one time, long before our recorded history, there existed on Earth a global, highly technological civilization that fell into ruin due to natural catastrophes, war, or both.

It is well documented that thousands of unreconstructed Nazis were brought to the United States and rolled into the military-industrial complex to aid in the Cold War against the old Soviet Union.

prior to the 1968 Gun Control Act, any person could legally own all sorts of weapons, including machine guns. Yet these guns prompted no school shootings. What

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also may explain why the prison population in America consisting of more than six million people, exceeds the number of prisoners held in the gulags of the former Soviet Union at any point in its history.

Instead, I've got the Hewitt boys down on paper. So that 100 years from now some reader I don't know can see how dumb they were!

Wrote that last entry in a running scribble that looks like a foreign language backward. If anybody reads it in the future, they will surely need good, thick glasses.

August 23, 1793. (THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA)

They had fought to keep the country together as George Washington and the Founding Fathers meant it to be.

Weber sandstone a billion years old. This rock was Precambrian, I read, a term like postmodern, suggesting that what it names is so mysterious as to require identification by what it isn't.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

Photographs are a bridge to the past. Black and white reminders of the way things used to be. Links to those who are no longer with us. Priceless treasures.

Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

Involuntary servitude was banned by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, but nothing was done to confront the ideology of white supremacy. Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.