history Quotes

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

I think the climate has been changing for billions of years.

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.