Quotes about History
My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.
- Alveda King
I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.
- William Golding
Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.
- Esther McVey
I believe, you know, as history unfolds, certain films will disappear, and certain ones will stand the test of time. And you never know which ones those are. And you've just got to go for the opportunities of films you think might be memorable.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.
- JRR Tolkien
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
- Benjamin Disraeli
And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.
- Catherine Booth
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- George Washington
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
- Oscar Wilde
It was lucky I came from City; I'd say their philosophy is quite similar. Barcelona are a lot more advanced because they are the ones who created it, but they have a history of members of staff at Manchester City who worked here.
- Toni Duggan
The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.
- Henry A. Wallace
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower