Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is God's gift that's why we call it the present.
Joan RiversHistory is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose BierceThe means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
James MadisonHistory is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de TocquevilleFor my part I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston ChurchillHistory is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
VoltaireIn the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. NixonPassion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance, and art would be useless.
Honore de BalzacNeither a wise man, nor a brave man, lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. EisenhowerAll humanity is passion, without passion religion, history, novels, art, would be ineffectual.
Honore de BalzacI'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it check the cash register.
Mike TysonHistory shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas CarlyleMy own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it and I don't think we should have done it.
Richard M. NixonEvery library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIf a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayWithout question the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
Dave BarryOur nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush LimbaughHistory books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole FranceBecoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.
Drew BarrymoreThere are still many causes worth sacrificing for so much history yet to be made.
Michelle ObamaWhat is history? An echo of the past in the future, a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor HugoThe soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
Mitt RomneyHistory will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and the same person
William BlakeIt is the true office of history to represent the events themselves together with the counsels and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment
Francis BaconLittle islands of human happiness peace and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
P. J. O'RourkeWe've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.
Barack ObamaToday for the first time in history a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land once a distant outpost of the pagan world has become through the preaching of the Gospel a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul IIRead no history: nothing but biography for that is life without theory.
Benjamin DisraeliWe wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
Paul RyanLiberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power not the increase of it.
Woodrow WilsonMankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history dating back to the time millions of years ago when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock tossed the rock into the air and whomped the club into the sl
Dave BarryThose that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Winston ChurchillThose of us who have gathered here... we owe something from this minute on so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history.
Maya AngelouKarate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Dave BarryIndeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
VoltaireOne of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
P. J. O'RourkeIt is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow WilsonWe need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.
Maya AngelouIn its history Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
Desmond TutuWe are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson FDR and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But you know but when it comes to the economy we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Barack ObamaIt is the true office of history to represent the events themselves together with the counsels and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
Francis BaconWell for us in history where goodness is a rare pearl he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor HugoThe whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen HawkingI believe that's one of the finest action regurgitation scenes in the history of literature. I'd put it right up there.
Dave BarryMinimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
Chuck PalahniukThroughout human history the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Paul RyanTell them from me they are unloading history.
Winston ChurchillThose who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund BurkeThings have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight D. EisenhowerCommerce is so far from being beneficial to arts or to empire that it is destructive of both as all their history shows for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
William BlakeThe history of the world is the world's court of justice.
Friedrich SchillerIt is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David ThoreauThe history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow WilsonYou may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle ObamaIn the richest country in the history of the world this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4 000 but health insurance premiums are higher food prices are higher utility bills are higher and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Mitt RomneyOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave FlaubertHistory will be kind to me for I intend to write it
Winston ChurchillThe Balkans produce more history than they can consume
Winston ChurchillI want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president, the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack ObamaOne could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert A. HeinleinPresident Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
Mitt RomneyThe view of Jerusalem is the history of the world, it is more it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin DisraeliNo great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle