Tag: history quotations

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

Love is never defeated and I could add the history of Ireland proves it.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it check the cash register.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

For most of history Anonymous was a woman.

If a race has no history if it has no worthwhile tradition it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.