Quotes of: Theodore Keyword

We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

Brian Schweitzer

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

Caleb Carr

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Greil Marcus

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Greil Marcus

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

Gerhard Schroder

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

Goldwin Smith

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

Goldwin Smith

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

Goldwin Smith

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

Gijs de Vries

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

George Washington

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Harold Evans

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

Hamid Karzai

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

Henry James Sumner Maine

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

John Lothrop Motley

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

Jon Meacham

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

Jon Meacham

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

James Rennell

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Jerry Saltz

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.

Dan Buettner

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

David Herbert Donald

There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.

David Diringer