Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
There is a noble and a base side to every history.
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.