“I hope to God there are no wars for him or anyone to fight in after this one.” — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?” — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“Exercise care with what it is you do when you hold my heart in your hands. For it is my love that… — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring,… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has… — David Frum Copy Share Image
There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma;… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when… — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
In his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, the most definitive study that's ever been done on the subject, Albert Schweitzer… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
![“Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up there [in the noose] it does give you pause but I'm no stranger to degradation and dehumanization. I felt a lot of pride to be a part of showing something like this because a…” quote by Aldis Hodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d07/aldis-hodge-8186_degradation_now-i-actually-have-to-a-degree-a-respon_2402279.jpg)