951 private quotes tagged history

“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?” — Emile M. Cioran

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“The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.” — David Cameron

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“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.” — Norman Cousins

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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” — Desmond Tutu

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“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.” — Erica Jong

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“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” — James A. Baldwin

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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana

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“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.” — George W. Bush

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“It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” — George Washington Carver

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“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.” — Grover Cleveland

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“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.” — Honore de Balzac

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“It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” — Edward R. Murrow

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“Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.” — Barry Goldwater

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“Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.” — Dee Dee Myers

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