Quotes for History

My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.

Sam Shepard

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Susan Sontag

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Milton Friedman

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

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

Clarence Darrow

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Madame de Stael

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

Neil Gaiman

The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the Harlem Renaissance, Chicago blues, and Motown, just to name a few.

William Barr

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Milton Friedman

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Ha-Joon Chang

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Georges Clemenceau

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

Audre Lorde

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

James Baldwin

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Mike Love

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Robert Orben

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

Richard Rohr

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

Ferdinand Marcos

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

John Henrik Clarke