I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
We may look through ancient and modern history, yet scarce find a sovereign to whom God offered the privilege of bestowing on… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Defense, it is clear, is not enough. To find an answer, we decided to mount the most intensive consultation process in the… — Michael R. Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“I argue that the United States will remain the world’s sole superpower for many decades, and probably throughout this century. We are… — Michael Beckley Copy Share Image
Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anybody who's run a campaign like [Donald Trump] successfully in modern history, not that I can think of.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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“There has been no major revolution in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement without intellectuals. Intellectuals… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“And, as inflation has fallen, so bonds have rallied in what has been one of the great bond bull markets of modern… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“ Lyell and Poulett Scrope , in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton ; and the former,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“If you wanted to bestow the grandiose title of "most successful organization in modern history," you would struggle to find a more… — David Leonhardt Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, Reagan presided over the largest tax cut in American history, and accomplished it working in tandem with (rather than against) a… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
“The national interest cannot be defined as a common interest of the industrial, commercial, and financial companies of a country, because there… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I did work with John McCain. I did work with Jeff Miller over in the House. And we put together not the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“modern U.S. history. For an American president to be this insensitive to the security needs of Israel at a time of such… — Reed Ralph Copy Share Image
In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be… — Rick Bright Copy Share Image
I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
I had the privilege and the honor of chairing the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And it is interesting to me, you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Many of the rioters were obviously bourgeois, the scions of privileged families, as have been the leaders of so many destructive movements… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
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