Quotes About History

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card.

You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

History is the daughter of time.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?