The History Of Quotes

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

The greatest and the most horrible crime that has ever been committed in the history of the whole world.

The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.

I think the history of the world suggests if one studies the Romans, and one studies the early Greeks, and one studies the history of the world, they all eventually falter if they don't come back to the basic aspect of integrity and honor and feelings of love one for another.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

The history of all hither-to-existing society is the history of class struggles.

Our country is the richest in the history of the world. We should be working to expand and improve successful programs like Medicare, and offer more to our citizens.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

The history of interest rates is really the history of inflation. When inflation is high, interest rates are high, and when inflation is low, interest rates are low.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

He’s one of the few men in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

World history is the history of the great cultures.

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

The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.

We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.

The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.

… a conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.

This administration has made the worst assault on the Constitution perhaps in the history of America…. It has weakened America at a time that we have to be strong.

[Addressing Thomas Jefferson:] Your taste is judicious in liking better the dreams of the future than the history of the past.

I revere the history of my party, most particularly the value it has always placed on the worth and dignity of the individual, and I will continue to work across the country for Republican candidates.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

There is no nation in the world greater, older or more honorable than the Turkish nation, nor has one been seen in the history of humanity.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.