Age Quote by John Quincy Adams

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

— Henry David Thoreau

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in…

— William S. Paley

The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system…

— Terence McKenna

“The ‘I’ that we confidently broadcast to the world is a fiction—a jerry-built container for the volatile unconscious elements that divide and confound us.…

— Robert W. Fuller

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

— Golda Meir

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

— Johan Huizinga

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would…

— John Quincy Adams

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

— John Quincy Adams

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

“Why should some foul word-slinging curb my ambitions?”

— Veronika Carnaby

Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“How deep was the grim sorter of the dark and the foul going to send me?”

— Andrew Davidson