Top 1200 American History Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The most important history is the history we make today.

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

I don't like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.

It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

History takes time. History makes memory.

The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and entrepreneurship.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

I want to put my name in history. I love history.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater.

As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.

My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't just for professional historians.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in American history. The Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and '86. And the same thing can happen here again. Democrats just cannot let it.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

When I was a kid, both my mom and my dad worked night shifts, so we would spend a lot of time at my grandfather's house. He taught at UCLA and was just really into history. Before bed, when other kids heard fairy tales, he would tell us about the American founding fathers and the beginning of democracy.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

Being a first-generation Cuban American, my story represents the American Dream.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

I say that the United States of America is a unique experiment in history. I believe in American exceptionalism. I wasn't for sending ground forces into Libya. It would have been counterproductive, but we are an inspiration to these people. I know because I've looked them in the eyes, and they looked at me. They look to America for inspiration and leadership.