The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpose.

It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.

A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

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

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

I am an honest person, and that is why I can admit historical facts and I will never try to contradict them.

The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.

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