History Quotes - Page 40

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

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

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

History teaches us hope.

To study history is to study literature.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

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

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.