If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the…

— Anthea Butler

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

— Max Baucus

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state,…

— James R. Thompson

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

— Renee Fleming

When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts…

— James M Strock

The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world…

— George W. Bush

One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the…

— Sebastian Haffner

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an…

— Gae Aulenti

If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned…

— Ben Shapiro

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

— Anonymous

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling…

— Genevieve Gorder

Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make…

— Stephen F. Hayes

“Is this the truth of our historic encounter?”

— Colson Whitehead