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The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
If you don't take a risk, you will not be satisfied and happy. I think one must look at creating history.
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?
We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.
Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.
I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.