Historic Quotes · Page 3

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended…

— Elbridge Gerry

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

— Renee Fleming

Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston.

— Thomas Menino

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

— Manmohan Singh

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

— Michael Chabon

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

— Joseph Hertz

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

— Ed Markey

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

— Yang Lan

Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country…

— Herman Melville

“The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets…

— Steven Magee

Since entering the new century, China and Africa have seized the historic opportunities presented by the deepening of globalization, worked together and…

— Li Keqiang

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in…

— Simon Mainwaring

Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear…

— Frank Buckles

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes…

— Theodor Herzl

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is…

— Theodor Herzl

I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there…

— Walt Disney

The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render…

— Ronald Reagan

God is good. He is eager to forgive. He wants us to perfect ourselves and maintain control of ourselves. He does not…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Once again, we are thrilled to be hosting this amazing gathering for LGBT families from across the country. Our families are an…

— Jennifer Chrisler

The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others,…

— Muhammad Yunus

I have been incredibly proud and incredibly humbled to have had a front-row seat in covering this election [2016]. I'm working the…

— Maria Bartiromo

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

— Sebastian Haffner

Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or…

— Anonymous

Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic…

— Xi Jinping

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

— Chris Hayes

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

— Peter Clewes

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

— Michael A. Ledeen

Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

— Robert D. Putnam

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

— John Podhoretz

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a…

— Jean Paul

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic…

— Lily Allen

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

— John le Carre

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

— Michele Bachmann

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read…

— Patty Duke

It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night!

— Neil Patrick Harris

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

— John Boehner

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

— Leo Tolstoy

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones...Historic.

— Sarah Hyland