Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. Lyndon B. Johnson on history
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant on history
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. George W. Bush on history
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. Christopher Hitchens on history
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. Jimmy Carter on history
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. David Herbert Lawrence on history
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. Simone Weil on history
I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Steven Spielberg on history
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. Richard M. Nixon on history
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. Mason Cooley on history
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. Robert Hall on history
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Walter Scott on history
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. Richard M. Nixon on history
The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it. George W. Bush on history
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. Vladimir Lenin on history
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. Hermann Hesse on history
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. Ted Nugent on history
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. James Hillman on history
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. Eddie Izzard on history
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. Mao Zedong on history