History quotes

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.