History Quotes

Libraries are not made, they grow.
Augustine Birrell

Grow, Libraries

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Irving R. Kaufman

System, Happened, Finding

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
James Stockdale

Down, Physics, Head

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

Business, Care, Thought

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Jacques Chirac

Art, Possible, Europe

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy

Death, Fear, Learned

We learned the value of research in World War II.
Amar Bose

War, Learned, Research

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter Berger

Past, Happened, Changing

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
Prince Charles

After, Won, Unless

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
Jacques Chirac

Life, Long, Thought

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
Hugo Black

Far, Purpose, Times

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
Michael Beschloss

Father, Remember, Boy

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
Juan Antonio Samaranch

Peace, Religion, Political

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
Byron White

Speak, Spend, Amendment

That great dust-heap called 'history'.
Augustine Birrell

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
William Manchester

Her, Awesome, Wonder

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Irving R. Kaufman

Trust, Society, Public

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Lance Morrow

Real, American, Door

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Francois Mitterrand

Succeed, Show, Close

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Irving R. Kaufman

Mind, Daily, Routine

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
George M. Humphrey

Morning, Lunch, Chicken

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
David M. Shoup

God, Best, Remember

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Bad, Reading

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, Bad, Greatest

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

Knowledge, Past, Culture

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