If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations study hell.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations study hell.
Tag: history quotations
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that my friends is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that my friends is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
History should be written as philosophy.
History should be written as philosophy.
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson FDR and Lincoln – just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But you know but when it comes to the economy we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson FDR and Lincoln – just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But you know but when it comes to the economy we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Indeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Indeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.
We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.
We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.
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.
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.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.