History Quote by Tim Grove Download Open image ““A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. Thomas Jefferson”” — Tim Grove ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that Mr. Jefferson ever hated me. On the contrary, I believe he always like me: but he detested Hamilton and by whole administration. Then he wished to be President of the United States, and I stood in his way. So he did everything that he could to pull me down. But if I should quarral with… — John Adams Copy Share
“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Jefferson is now remembered as the author of one of the English language’s most timeless passages, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he was consistent: the wanted the best… — Thomas J. Craughwell Copy Share Image
“Everything is valuable, in its own way. Everything is full of history.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia. [ Epitaph, upon his instructions to erect a 'a plain die or cube ... surmounted by an Obelisk' with 'the following inscription, and not a word more…because by these, as testimonials that I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
“It was of course Jefferson’s gift at one time or another to put with eloquence the “right” answer to every moral question. In practice,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“Professor Julius Lester, which I kept propped on my desk: “History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“When we seek to understand liberty, equality, progress, constitutional governance, separation of church and state, and the meaning of the American Revolution, we do so in contexts framed by Jefferson's writings and arguments. Whatever we think of Jefferson as a person or as a politician, we can never take away from him his remarkable gift as a writer or his… — R.B. Bernstein Copy Share
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image