In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
So I'm OK with myself with history my work who I am and who I was.
History does not merely touch on language but takes place in it.
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for so much history yet to be made.
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
Now when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says look people have learned from history.
The principle that human nature in its psychological aspects is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class apart from redneck which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
The history of the last century shows as we shall see later that the advice given to governments by bankers like the advice they gave to industrialists was consistently good for bankers but was often disastrous for governments businessmen and the people generally.
History is strictly speaking the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Value people on their potential not on their history.
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
In its history Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
Every library should try to be complete on something if it were only the history of pinheads.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
If a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!
Sometimes - history needs a push.
The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter while oblivion is the reward of the former.
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.