Modern History Quotes
30 Modern History quotes by 27 unique authors
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It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
— Harold Rosenberg
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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
— James Dickey
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This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an…
— James Baker
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This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of…
— Pope Leo X
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It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found…
— Unknown Author
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Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a…
— Robert S Ellwood
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I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern…
— Robert Scheer
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The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.
— Herman Wouk
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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are…
— Noam Chomsky
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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its…
— Susan Sontag
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President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at…
— Ken Salazar
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Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government…
— Richard Mentor Johnson
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But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere…
— Wendell Berry
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I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR,…
— Barack Obama
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the…
— Nancy Reagan
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I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
— Emma Watson
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Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.
— Walter Raleigh
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Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern…
— Mark McKinnon
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The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We…
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world…
— Bill Gates
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President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president - his economy is bleak, his foreign policy…
— Ben Shapiro
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The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
— Stephen Kinzer
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It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through…
— Yvette Clarke
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
— Walter Raleigh
Who Wrote These Modern History Quotes
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