Quotes About History

America was founded on satanism.

When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.

The U.S. was founded as a white supremacist nation; that's just what it is.

How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?

Interest in the Founders has risen and fallen over time, as has admiration for them and their accomplishments.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.

I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.

'Conservative,' to me, means someone that has an appreciation for the Constitution, that has an appreciation for a limited government and has an appreciation of our nation's founding and our history.

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

The Founding Fathers gave birth to a new type of nation.

When was 'again?' Was it back when I was drinking from a separate water fountain? Was it when I couldn't eat in that restaurant over there?... 'Make America Great Again' - before I had equality?

I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes.

I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and thought I needed a First.

That is amazing that a guy like St. Jerome who lived in the fourth century could bring people together. Sometimes you think people are dead and forgotten. But they can actually bring you together in the best way.

In all my time in England, I have never come up against a fragile Man United team.

Do you know I keep a picture of Hattie McDaniel in my closet in an 8-by-10 frame?

Every frame of every film is from a particular time. So, if you make a film in 2017, the times can't not have a bearing.

The amazing thing about Bob Marley is that there is no moving footage of him at all for the first ten or eleven years of his career. From 1962 to 1973, there's nothing, not a single frame.

I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.

In France, history is paralyzing.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

France is, for me, the country of happiness.

I don't think that France is responsible for the Vel d'Hiv.