History Quotes - Page 56

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.

It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)