History Quotes

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decis…

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

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

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

World history is tragic.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastatin…

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to …

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

I'm not sure history has ended.

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to …

Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant…

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.