History quotes

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

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

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.