710 Quotes About Historical

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence,

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.