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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.
It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.
I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.
I would want to wear No. 20, just because a lot of history behind that number through high school and college.
Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.
History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!
History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.