3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
3 December 2020 Conrad Hall Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
3 December 2020 Billy Bragg I’m trying to make a case for those people who don’t have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
3 December 2020 Jackie Kennedy What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
3 December 2020 Edward de Bono In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
3 December 2020 George H. W. Bush But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
3 December 2020 Augustine Birrell Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
3 December 2020 David Horowitz If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
3 December 2020 Coretta Scott King There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
3 December 2020 Edwin Hubbel Chapin Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
3 December 2020 Kathryn Bigelow The Communist regime didn’t consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
3 December 2020 Ludwig von Mises If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
3 December 2020 Bernard Baruch If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
3 December 2020 V. S. Naipaul To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’
3 December 2020 Ben Stein I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
3 December 2020 Charles Darwin In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
3 December 2020 Rudyard Kipling If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
