History Quotes

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnam…

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

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

Time is my greatest enemy.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

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

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

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 is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

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

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years…