History Quotes

Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.

~ Elliott Abrams

The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.

~ Robert Kennedy

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

~ Mitch Mcconnell

Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary.

~ Hugo Chavez

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.

~ Marvin Ammori

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

~ Michael Mccaul

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

~ Carl T. Rowan

Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.

~ Liane Moriarty

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

~ John Ridley

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

~ Elie Wiesel

When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds.

~ David Hallberg

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.

~ John Henrik Clarke

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

~ David Hume

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.

~ David Christian

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

~ Ben Bernanke

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

~ Ken Burns

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

~ Alfred Russel Wallace

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

~ John Shelton Reed

I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.

~ Mackenzie Davis

'The Others' books take place in an alternate Earth where the Earth natives have been the dominant predators throughout the world's history, and humans are nowhere near the top of the food chain. But humans are clever and resilient, if not always wise, and have made some bargains with the Others in order to survive.

~ Anne Bishop

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

~ Winona Laduke

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

~ Ruth Reichl

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

~ Benito Mussolini

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

~ Richard Dawkins

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

~ Madalyn Murray O'hair

I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

~ Greg Graffin

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.

~ Michael Eric Dyson

There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions.

~ Frank Sinatra

A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.

~ Émile Durkheim

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.

~ Joyce Meyer

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face with difference.

~ Martin Jacques

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

~ Honoré De Balzac

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

~ George J. Mitchell

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

~ Michael Berryman

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

~ Juan Antonio Samaranch

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson