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History Quotes

While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imperialism after the war in Vietnam.

– Brendan Sexton III

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

– Andy Kindler

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

– Abdelaziz Bouteflika

I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles.

– Azzedine Alaia

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

– Bobby Jindal

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

– Camille Paglia

My work is not about my life history. It’s not about the story of my neurosis.

– Anish Kapoor

I want Chinese history to remember me as Carnegie is remembered. I want Chinese people to remember me as they remember Marx and Lenin.

– Chen Guangbiao

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

– Alfred A. Montapert

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I’ve just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

– Antonia Fraser

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

– Cory Booker

There’s so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.

– Ashton Sanders

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

– Charles de Gaulle

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States – not the kind of role I usually play – it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

– Andrea Martin

I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.

– Ben Quayle

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

– Alan Furst

Americans think that they have a history, but it’s nothing compared to Europe.

– Ashton Kutcher

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

– Adam Clarke

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

– Abraham Lincoln

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they’re not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They’re gonna turn on each other.

– Alan Moore

History will dictate what my legacy is. And ‘maverick’ is fine, because I am.

– Al Davis

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

– Benito Mussolini

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

– Boris Becker

Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

– Bill Bryson

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

– Bob Ehrlich

‘Hamilton’ is one of the best things I’ve ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss.

– Cory Booker

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

– Arnold J. Toynbee

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

– Alex Kapranos

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

– Bill Walton

Ultimately there’s a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.

– Ashton Kutcher

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