Quotes About History

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

It's a lot of people that died for me to have the opportunity that I have now, just the freedom. It shouldn't be forgotten as far as the past is concerned.

There was so little said about the Burmese war. The Forgotten 14th, they called them.

I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'

The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia.

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

Everybody who knows Formula 1 knows McLaren and knows that it is the greatest team in Formula 1.

I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.

We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.

I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.