Historic Quotes · Page 4

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

— Warren Buffett

I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.

— Alexander Ovechkin

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

— Charles Evans Hughes

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

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

— Peter Clewes

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion…

— George Pataki

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or…

— Anonymous

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic…

— Richard Whately

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet…

— Edward Snowden

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's…

— Bob Riley

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

— Frank Buckles

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

Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but…

— Edward Snowden

We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also…

— George H. W. Bush

I think President Barack Obama is going to be treated very, very well by history in terms of his ability to save…

— Tom Vilsack

The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high…

— Erick Erickson

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

— Ronald Reagan

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up…

— Robert Kennedy

The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the…

— John Walford

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

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

— Michael A. Ledeen

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

— Yang Lan

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

— Naomi Klein

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

— Chris Hayes

There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.

— Brooke Westcott

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

— Joseph Hertz

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Ed Markey

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

— Walt Mossberg

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

— Stendhal

This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.

— Kofi Annan

I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

— Howard Zinn

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

— Sarah Hyland

“Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.”

— A.E. Samaan

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

— Robert Musil

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson