History Quotes - Page 5

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

The obvious is always least understood.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.