Quotes: History

I am responsible only to God and history.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn’t hurt your appreciation of the painting.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

You know that’s history, that’s why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don’t agree.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.