3 December 2020 Eddie Bernice Johnson Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
3 December 2020 Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
3 December 2020 Tony Kushner A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer’s ‘The Normal Heart.’
3 December 2020 John Dewey Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
3 December 2020 William Jennings Bryan My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.
3 December 2020 George Lucas Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Schlafly History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
3 December 2020 Arnold J. Toynbee Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
3 December 2020 Georgios A. Papandreou There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
3 December 2020 Jean Genet Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
3 December 2020 Rand Paul For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, ‘you don’t build that.’
3 December 2020 Tim Robbins I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
3 December 2020 Saul Williams Why shouldn’t rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it’s this old idea of containment – that rappers, because they’re black, can’t and shouldn’t aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
3 December 2020 Georges Clemenceau America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
3 December 2020 Novak Djokovic But, it’s because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.
