The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.