History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Thomas HuxleyWhat is history? An echo of the past in the future, a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor HugoAs I speak to you today government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
Hillary ClintonRevolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl MarxNo event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. NixonThe 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 RomneyIn the course of history men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich NietzscheThanks to television for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret MeadHistory 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 BlakeThe whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.
Winston ChurchillWhether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
Hillary ClintonWe are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases while the citizens may act only by permission, which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn RandIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude SteinNumerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
David BrinkleyIt 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 BaconWe would like to live as we once lived but history will not permit it.
John F. KennedyLittle 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'RourkeThere is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. TrumanIf history were taught in the form of stories it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard KiplingPersonally I would be delighted if there were a life after death especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl SaganWe'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 ObamaIf we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRead no history: nothing but biography for that is life without theory.
Benjamin DisraeliWe have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land their culture their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
Abdul KalamThere has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore RooseveltIf you want to study the social and political history of modern nations study hell.
Thomas MertonAmong the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma GandhiI 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 ObamaMinimalism 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 PalahniukIn 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 RomneyI 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 Obama