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History Quotes by George Will
- Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this…
- The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit…
- World War II was the last government program that really worked.
- The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
- If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with…
- The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.
- The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.
- Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed…
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough