Quotes about History

Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

Jerusalem is the holiest place for the Jewish people.

Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow.

I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.

Architecture is life, or at least life itself taking form. . . the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or will ever be lived.

Consider this thought: Adam's entire existence was based upon what he ate. His diet determined his destiny. It also determined the entire course of human history.

All of our people all over the country—except the pure-blooded Indians—are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.