Quotes for History

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

Ferdinand Marcos

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Thurgood Marshall

Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the mind, it is by no means confined to weak, feeble, or commonplace intellects; as history sadly records, its carriers have included men and women of otherwise powerful and subtle thoughts.

Paul Johnson

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

George Meredith

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Alice Walker

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Emil Cioran

Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and to a shoemaker. You speak differently to your mother, who comes from Burgundy, and to your father, who comes from Swabia.

Ivan Illich

The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

Robert Kennedy

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Presidents have a right to certain prerogatives, including the expectation of a certain deference. He's the president; this is history. But we seem to have come a long way since Ronald Reagan was regularly barked at by Sam Donaldson, almost literally, and the president shrugged it off.

Peggy Noonan

My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.

Sudha Murty

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

James K. Polk

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Thomas Merton

Before you begin a paranormal investigation, the most important criteria you need to gather is the back history of the location.

Zak Bagans

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Elie Wiesel

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

Alan Shepard

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Doris Lessing

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

Alfred de Vigny