Quotes About History

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

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.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.