History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.
Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.
Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the fact is the history of the church is clear and open and leads to faith and strength and virtues.
Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.
The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history. . . and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.
Men make their own history
History does not unfold: it piles up.
I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.
Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history. . . for contemplation or in fact. . . Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.
The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U. S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.