Political History Quotes
18 Political History quotes by 16 unique authors
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Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes
— Unknown Author
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All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.
— John Pugsley
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Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as…
— Fernand Braudel
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The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph…
— Herbert Croly
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It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
— Vincent Bugliosi
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It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the…
— Georges Cuvier
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People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
— Fatos Nano
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Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military…
— Michelle Bachelet
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The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.
— Jeff Miller
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for…
— Richard Hofstadter
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
— Thomas Merton
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
— Leopold von Ranke
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to…
— Irwin Redlener
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For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to…
— Michael Rostovtzeff
Who Wrote These Political History Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Political History Quotes as follows: