I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it. — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.” — Vladimir Odoevsky Copy Share Image
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship. — James G. Watt Copy Share Image
An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God,… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
“The simple truth is that nowhere in human history is there another man who combined so uniquely and effectively in his person… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“Sundays when they could come, my mother would bring a piece of cake and some cookies from the bakery. Of course, the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“We were, each of us… at a crossroads of public and private dynamics which had brought us to this frame-worthy moment. I… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Appreciate what you have while you still have it because one day you won't. — Robert Tew Copy Share Image
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“History taught that the cover-up was always worse than the crime.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“History can be created, but recreating it can ruin its originality.” — priyanka gera Copy Share Image
“Everyone has an interpretation of history, which suits their interest and benefit” — Kandathil Sebastian Copy Share Image
“It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.” — Keith Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
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