A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
History is written by the victors.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.
The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in schoo...
My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.
History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong ...
