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History Quotes by Jon Meacham
- Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history…
- Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is…
- The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
- World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
- I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was…
- From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I…
- History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us,…
- Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in…
- The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a…
- With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and…
- The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history…
- Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us all…
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