Quotes about History

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

The Prophet Joseph Smith lived in troubled times.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

I'd never imagined I had the opportunity to play with Tom Brady, the greatest athlete in sports history.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Empires came and went while we, the Jewish people, persecuted relentlessly, facing expulsions and pogroms and the Holocaust, survived. We survived thanks to the Torah and faith in the Lord.