Quotes of: American-history Keyword

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

Felicia Day

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

Frank B. Kellogg

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Ferdinand Mount

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

Fatos Nano

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

Frank Rich

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Fred Saberhagen

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

Garth Brooks

I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'

Gabby Douglas

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

Gustave Flaubert

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

Gracie Gold

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

George Michael

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

Goldwin Smith

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

George Will

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

Ha-Joon Chang

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

Helena Christensen

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

Harri Holkeri

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

Henry James

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

Henry M. Jackson

I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.

Henry Petroski

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

Harry Reid