Modern History Quotes

30 Modern History quotes by 27 unique authors

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
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. — Harold Rosenberg
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. — James Dickey
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
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
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
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
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
The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history. — Herman Wouk
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth. — Walter Raleigh
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
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
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
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
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history. — Stephen Kinzer
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
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. — Walter Raleigh

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