Historical Quotes - Page 5

The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins.

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

Officers don't run, only corporals do that

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth.

We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

When I was younger I saw God as a mighty healer who did something for me, but after all these years of valleys and painful trials Jesus has become an ever-present friend who is with me all the time. He has gone from being an historical God to being a living God to me today. I've fallen short many times during these trials and testings, but he has always been faithful. Whenever I've asked him to help me he always has....Jesus is everything and we are nothing.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.