History quotes

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Time is my greatest enemy.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

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

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

It's a very good historical book about history.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.