History Quotes

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Emily Blunt

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

Erskine Bowles

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

Evan Bayh

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

Ezra Taft Benson

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

Eldridge Cleaver

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Eleanor Clift

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

Eleanor Clift

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

Eleanor Clift

History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.

Elizabeth Coleman

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

Eric Cantor

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

E. L. Doctorow

It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.

Emile Durkheim

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Evan Dando

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

Elliott Erwitt

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

Erik Erikson

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

Erik Erikson

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

Ellen Forney

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

Ed Gillespie

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

Eduardo Galeano

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon