How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon -… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind.… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot… — Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Copy Share Image
“When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the… — Edward M. Hallowell Copy Share Image
“... a man could build whatever monuments he wanted in the worlds of politics, sports, entertainment, and business, but if they come… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“You need to be careful of people who tell you that adventure exists at the next turn--because it turns out that they… — Christopher Herz Copy Share Image
Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo,… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide,… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When someone's lost, aimless and adrift Take the time, give 'em a lift Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery But today,… — Squire Rushnell Copy Share Image
The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Kerala has a history of being resilient... in a short span we had several crises - floods, Nipah, Ockhi, etc. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in… — Anders Sandberg Copy Share Image
I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to… — Shunroku Hata Copy Share Image
“So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. — Peter Conrad Copy Share Image
“The clocks are ticking my friends. History has got a strict timetable. If we're not careful we might be remembered as the… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“There may be some legitimate surprise at the president’s extremism and the harm he is causing. After all, candidate Obama and his… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
A lot of church music really inspired me. A lot of ancient music that's made for God. If you get really into… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“If you had your time all over again…? She was keen to know. You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is:… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Do you notice how all the self-sacrificing women in history; Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, can't think of any others; they all… — Dr Gregory House Copy Share Image
“Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Big, historic football clubs have the ability to come back, even when everything seems lost. There is a strong inner belief within… — Raul Jimenez Copy Share Image
