History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
We might have been a free and great people together.
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation.
Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.
Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again. " And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads.
The history of skiing is important to me.
History is the story of warfare between secret societies.
Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines through British history. Our commitment to fairness, fair play and civic duty.
Politics is history in the present tense.
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me. ’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.