Quotes About History

No archaeological discovery has ever controverted a biblical reference.

The danger of Italy...is, it tends to make one florid.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.

We are a Nation Under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone UNDER.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I have no recollection of that ever happening.

History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.

Liberty has never come from government," Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR's predecessors and another Democrat, said. "The history of liberty is the history of limitation of government's power, not the increase of it.

James Madison said in 1788: "Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

To use a computer analogy, we are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more. This may explain quite a lot of what we see in the news.

Our word "lord" comes from the Old English hlaford, or "loafward," he who guarded the bread supply — and was expected to share it.

Uzun zaman önce... Hiç kimse tarlalar? sabanla deÅŸmezdi Topra?? s?n?rlara bölmezdi hiç kimse Ve sular? kürekle yarmazd? K?y? dünyan?n sonuydu. Ah doÄŸuÅŸtan zeki insan, buluÅŸlar?n?n kurban? Öyle korkunç ki yarat?c?l???n, Ne iÅŸe yarar ÅŸehirleri çevreleyen ÅŸu yüksek duvarlar Ve niye savaÅŸmak için silahlar?

En los castillos medievales, en el enigmático Machu Picchu, en las vetustas pirámides de Egipto: la piel siempre tuvo que ser la piel y el ansia, el ansia.

Porque hay una historia que no está en la historia y que solo se puede rescatar aguzando el oído y escuchando los susurros de las mujeres.

6 de noviembre de 1906

Este tipo de cosas ha pasado tan a menudo en la historia de la ciencia que el hecho de minimizar el talento, la inteligencia y la contribución de las mujeres científicas debería considerarse un error sistémico.»

Por primera vez en la historia de la Humanidad hay tantas autoras como autores; por primera vez nuestra voz es tan pública como la de ellos

Because, once again, our government—and I'm speaking not just of the regional government, but of the planetary one as well—is concealing information. Concealing it, or what would be even worse, it's not aware of it, because we're in the hands of the most incompetent politicians humanity has ever had in its history.