Anything that is history making, then of course you want to be a part of it. — Austin Aries Copy Share Image
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it. — Frederic William Maitland Copy Share Image
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“The history of humanity is, to a very great extent, a history of violence.” — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“Everyone’s got history,” Baasen said amiably. “Man still has to work, whatever’s in his past, eh?” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
“If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
When you tell a film financier that you want to do a Shakespeare film, their face drops. Shakespeare films don't have a… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
