Martha Washington. I think she’s done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman. – Cokie Roberts
Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today’s American newspapers and magazines. – Dannel Malloy
Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that. – Paul Watson
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. – Dean Acheson
I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. – Dennis Chavez
The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too. – Frances Beinecke
Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It’s completely different for me. – Caster Semenya
The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: ‘how many times I defended my title.’ They try to break a record: ‘how long I was there.’ But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain’t nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience. – Evander Holyfield
It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States. – Mark Foley
No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill Clinton. – Mario Cuomo
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. – Elie Wiesel
I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add… just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful. – F. Gary Gray
I think I’m the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it. – Eugene Levy
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? – David McCullough
When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did – it just hasn’t been told. – David Harewood
On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. – Ernest Mandel
We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond. – Chris Hondros
The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend. – Dave Brat
We don’t look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It’s not only about Chelsea, this league. – Eden Hazard
American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it’s about denying it. It’s been that way our whole history. – Chris Jordan
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another. – Ellsworth Huntington
Harlem’s streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as ‘This Was Harlem.’ – Darryl Pinckney
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little. – F. Sionil Jose
Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews. – Elliott Abrams
At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past. – Clive Sinclair
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. – Friedrich Nietzsche