Quotes About History

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

History develops, art stands still.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.