Quotes about History

The wrong to the Negro is temporary, but to the morals of the white man the injury is permanent.

Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too

Besides, ghost-stories are even more blood-curdling if you are reading them on a journey, especially at night, in a town, in a house, in a room where you have never been before. How many horrific events may already have taken place on the very spot where you are lying?—that is what you cannot help wondering.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

WWE and I have a long history, and I remember some very fun days back in the day.

Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

And the good delight to hear of the past evils of such as are now freed from them, not because they are evils, but because they have been and are not.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.