3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
3 December 2020 Steve King Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I’ll pull that ’80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.
3 December 2020 Tim Burton There’s something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.
3 December 2020 Edward Kennedy Dad, I’m in some trouble. There’s been an accident and you’re going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
3 December 2020 Thom Yorke If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Lenin It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
3 December 2020 Carter G. Woodson Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
3 December 2020 William Manchester An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
3 December 2020 Julie Andrews My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
3 December 2020 Lion Feuchtwanger Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
3 December 2020 Mattie Stepanek While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
3 December 2020 A. J. P. Taylor He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
3 December 2020 Ted Nugent Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
3 December 2020 Hugo Black In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
3 December 2020 John Podhoretz Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
3 December 2020 Stockwell Day Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
3 December 2020 Robert Mugabe Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
3 December 2020 Ric Keller Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
