History Quotes

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

History seems to be so clumsy.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.