History quotes

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

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

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.