We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights. – Fidel Castro
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
My work since the late ’80s specifically questioned what was presented as the ‘natural’ order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting. – Deborah Kass
You can’t write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. ‘What is criminality and what is government’ is a theme that runs through every history. – David Mamet
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. – Nelson Mandela
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history. – Philip Treacy
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history. – Daisaku Ikeda
If there’s one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it’s Israel. – Donald Tusk
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. – Noam Chomsky
I didn’t learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems – dreams, myth, history – from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne. – Carolyn Kizer
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. – Doris Kearns Goodwin
I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was. – David Lynch
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history. – Gavin Newsom
I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It’s one of those places where you can’t help but trip over history at every turn. It’s a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin’s Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. – Daniel Silva
Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it’s a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It’s all right there in front of us. – Phil Anselmo
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. – Charles Dudley Warner
Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah. – Meir Soloveichik
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? – Christian Lous Lange
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. – Noam Chomsky
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and ‘Idol hit,’ I just didn’t watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of ‘Idol,’ this is one of the greatest stories in television history. – Carson Daly
The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it. – George W. Bush
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point. – Philip Johnson
I love the dancers in the Bolshoi, but all of my Moscow friends are outside the company. A friend introduced me to Vika Gazinskaya, a well-known Russian designer. I met her group. The rest is history. – David Hallberg
Psy is fantastic. He’s shifted the planet. He’s got the whole world dancing. And it’s a rarity in this world. Only four people made that happen in history – James Brown, Michael Jackson, yours truly and Psy. – MC Hammer
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour. – Douglas Hurd
I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history. – Molly Quinn
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness – all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. – Michael Heizer
Is Donald Trump a fascist? It’s an interesting question that has generated insightful commentary over the past few months, with the best answers situating Trumpian illiberalism within America’s long history of racial oppression, slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the ongoing backlash to the loss of white privilege. – Greg Grandin