Quotes about History

Faith in Jesus is the most important event in the history of a child's life.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

Abbot Miron had sat sewing a patch on his trousers as we talked. He raised his intense luminous eyes to Gaston and said, "Years ago I had a postcard from my brother in New York, who had been to the top of the Empire State Building. He didn't investigate the foundations first, Pastor Gaston. The fact that it had been there forty years is proof that the foundations are good. The same with the Church, which has rested two thousand years on the truth.