The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. Use this quote
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. Use this quote
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. Use this quote
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. Use this quote
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? Use this quote
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. Use this quote
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. Use this quote
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. Use this quote
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. Use this quote
I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything. Use this quote
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. Use this quote
But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling. Use this quote
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. Use this quote
History's a resource. Use this quote
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. Use this quote
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. Use this quote
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! Use this quote
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. Use this quote
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. Use this quote
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. Use this quote