Quotes about History

“The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.”

“There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.”

“Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.”

“We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.”

“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.”

“The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”

“I believe in God. I believe that He's real and I believe He has control over a lot of things and I think throughout history there has been a lot of countries that have turned their back on Him and the result is not great.”

“We should not be flying a flag of a group who wants to erase our history and bring mass destruction to our country through Communism.”

“Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.”

“A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.”

“I loved some classes - math, history, that's pretty much it. I didn't love physical activities.”

“There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.”

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”

“I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.”

“You either make money, or you make history.”

“It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.”

“Today is reality. Yesterday is history.”

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

“I want to make history and just show people that if you have determination and if you want to work hard enough and want something, you can make it happen.”