“Efforts to remove the Christian faith from subjects like American history distort the content of the subject. Just as wrong is the… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm still convinced that - I'm sorry to say - the body of evidence shows that the planet is warming up. And… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
You have a long history of changes in diagnosis, from no touching to touching, to assessing acoustics and visuals. But visual is… — Don Ihde Copy Share Image
“To preserve our absolute categories or ideals at the expense of human lives offends equally against the principles of science and of… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this?… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“The founders of Freemasonry—whoever they were—were certainly aware of the history of the Templars, and they were clearly inspired by Templar ideals:… — Mark E. Kolko-Rivera Copy Share Image
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There… — William Golding Copy Share Image
True to their history, the English are very domineering and have manipulated it in different ways. I wouldn't say that there was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“History is a strange creature. It has the amazing ability to blind us with our own reflection when we peek over its… — Yanko Tsvetkov Copy Share Image
“There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think it's one of our strengths that we can put on blinders when it comes to our history and just focus… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
“At some point in youth an old person will tell you a harsh truth you will not believe, in middle age you… — C.A.A. Savastano Copy Share Image
I had many different assignments and I was doing things that I thought were important... no, I didn't either: I didn't think… — Frank Buckles Copy Share Image
“Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged,… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the… — Carter Lindberg Copy Share Image
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“The war. Here I was a virgin. Could you imagine getting your ass blown off for the sake of history before you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
You take a 30-year-old. To him, history began the day he was born. He doesn't know how cold it was 70 years… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We've always anticipated that, as Nintendo would demonstrate business potential with an idea, others would follow. And we believe that based on… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
“No oak trees without acorns' may be a formally true proposition, but that this acorn did in fact produce this oak tree,… — Terry Nardin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you get older—and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently—things you think on and wish… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
“The origins of Aragon's independent history, and of the fundamental characteristics which differentiated it so sharply from Castile, are to be found… — J. H. Elliott Copy Share Image
