Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.
You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
Although. . . the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.
Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it. 'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.
Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.
It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.
Happy is the nation without a history.
I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.