Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: history

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

I'm a staunch believer that we are in an earth cycle. There's no question the planet is changing, and the fact that the Mayans had an end date and their history talks of change, I find that fascinating.

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

While we read history we make history.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

World history is a court of judgment.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

History takes time. History makes memory.

I see myself in competition with Blur and Oasis. But everyone else just sees me as this guy with a history.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

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

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero.

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

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.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

America has always imported history.

We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the side of the free nations.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

History is more or less bunk.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.