1,003 Quotes Regarding History


Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
William O. Douglas

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Wendell Phillips

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
Jean Chretien

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Edward Kennedy

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
James K. Polk

Libraries are not made, they grow.
Augustine Birrell

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
James Stockdale

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Irving R. Kaufman

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
Prince Charles

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
Jacques Chirac

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Jacques Chirac

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
Hugo Black

We learned the value of research in World War II.
Amar Bose

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter Berger

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
Michael Beschloss

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Lance Morrow

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Juan Antonio Samaranch

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
Byron White