National History Quotes

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Laws form the most important portion of a nation's history.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries.

Our nation’s history can be seen as an enduring civil war over whether Big Government of Big Business is the primary enemy of the people.

Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who are born in a place or who adopt its citizenship can hope to understand.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.

We short history; the Chinese long history.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

We've had a debate about immigration in New Zealand for some time. Now what we're trying to champion in that conversation is a recognition that New Zealand has been built off immigration. I myself am a third-generation New Zealander.