Top 465 History Quotes

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.

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

Daniel Yergin

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.

Yitzhak Shamir

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

Lane Evans

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

Yvette Clarke

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

Xavier Becerra

Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.

Louis MacNeice

History is more interesting than politics.

History is more interesting than politics.

Lennart Meri

When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

Laura Anne Gilman

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

Olivia De Havilland

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