Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what h...
May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that his...
The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
When I think of black television and history, I always use 'The Cosby Show' as the bar.
Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
One has to confront history honestly.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
