History Quotes

It is a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world’s history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?