3 December 2020 Anne Roiphe We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn’t always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
3 December 2020 Doris Lessing September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible.
3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
3 December 2020 LL Cool J Hip-hop’s always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it’s always had a lot of positivity.
3 December 2020 Sidney Sheldon I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
3 December 2020 Jon Meacham Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
3 December 2020 William Halsey There are no extraordinary men… just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
3 December 2020 Krist Novoselic But whenever history is in the making, there’s some kind of intangible feeling.
3 December 2020 Anita Roddick All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
3 December 2020 Robert Menzies The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world’s main religions?
3 December 2020 Mason Cooley Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
3 December 2020 Potter Stewart The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
3 December 2020 Irving R. Kaufman To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
3 December 2020 Stephen Ambrose You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
3 December 2020 Kim Il-sung The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
3 December 2020 Stephen Jay Gould With copious evidence ranging from Plato’s haughtiness to Beethoven’s tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
3 December 2020 Queen Elizabeth II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
3 December 2020 Daniel Craig The subject matter is very tricky. It’s about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it’s a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
3 December 2020 Stockwell Day Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
3 December 2020 William O. Douglas Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
3 December 2020 Lance Morrow The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
3 December 2020 Nancy Pelosi The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
